Revista Filosofía UIS

Vol. 7 No. 1 y 2 (2008): Revista Filosofía UIS
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Brentano and the problems of intentionality

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  • Darryl J. Murphy
Darryl J. Murphy
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
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Published 2008-10-30

Keywords

  • Brentano,
  • consciousness,
  • ontology,
  • epistemology

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Murphy, D. J. (2008). Brentano and the problems of intentionality. Revista Filosofía UIS, 7(1 y 2), 55–77. Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistafilosofiauis/article/view/143

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to call attention to a problem that has yet to be articulated in the literature surrounding Brentano's notion of intentional inexistence, or, as it is commonly referred, intentionality. As I will explain, the core of this problem can be understood as petitio principii manifest in Brentano's model of consciousness, such a fallacious conceptual construct entails a radical interdependence of the elements of the model. I will argue that, when overlooked, this essentially ontological problem leads us to the sorts of epistemological problems that we conventionally refer to as the "problem of intentionality".

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