Consciousness and Intentionality
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness July 9, 2020 Angela Mendelovici, David Bourget 28 citations
Philosophers traditionally recognize two key features of mental states: intentionality and phenomenal consciousness. To a first approximation, intentionality is the ‘aboutness’ of mental states, and phenomenal consciousness is the felt, experiential, qualitative, or ‘what it’s like’ aspect of mental states. In the past few decades, these features have been widely assumed to be distinct and...