Yet Another Workshop on Phenomenal Intentionality

This workshop will bring together scholars from the US and Europe to discuss their work on the topic of phenomenal intentionality.  Intentionality is the property that most (if not all) mental states (such as thoughts and perceptions) have of being about something, or having representational content. Until fairly recently, the dominant approaches to intentionality in the analytic tradition attempted to reduce it to some kind of natural/causal relation between brain states and the world. Dissatisfaction with such theories has prompted a growing number of philosophers to explore a fundamentally different approach, on which intentionality is an essentially experiential phenomenon.  The basic idea is that intentional states of all kinds represent what they do in virtue of their intrinsic experiential character – their phenomenology.

Invited researchers will share their work on cutting-edge issues within this research program, such as the nature of conceptual experience (the experience of thinking), the contents of perceptual experience (e.g., which properties are represented within visual experience), unconscious intentionality, and the relation of phenomenal intentional content to reference.

The organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the CEU Conferences and Academic Events Fund.

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