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Nicholas Georgalis

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The fiction of phenomenal intentionality

Consciousness & Emotion December 31, 2003 Nicholas Georgalis 8 citations

This paper argues that there is no such thing as “phenomenal intentionality”. The arguments used by its advocates rely upon an appeal to “what it is like” (WIL) to attend on some occasion to one’s intentional state. I argue that there is an important asymmetry in the application of the WIL phenomenon to sensory and intentional states. Advocates of “phenomenal intentionality” fail to recognize...