PSY 300 Study Guide - Intentional Stance, Neurology, Intentionality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: Tara M Burke

Document Summary

Or dennet: physical stance, everything that happened was due to the underlying atomic structure (according to laplace), of which davidson somewhat agreed. It"s a physical stance prediction to say: that branch will break due to the snowfall in the winter - to be able to predict this, you must be able to know a lot of detail. Brentano: something is mental if it has intentionality. Intentionality: the directedness of the mind: all thoughts are directed towards something, there is an object to which their thoughts are directed. Logical opacity: always an object of thought, thought always focused on something and this directedness is what you want to focus on when determining intentionality. Logical opacity (might be dennet or davidson?: you cannot assume beliefs! You cannot assume that just because most people know a fact, that everybody knows a fact: you cannot substitute one truth for another and keep the truth value of the sentence (recall: brian mulrooney example)