@article{ART001414213},
author={Youngjin Kiem},
title={The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2005},
number={2},
pages={93-113}
TY - JOUR
AU - Youngjin Kiem
TI - The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2005
VL - null
IS - 2
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 93
EP - 113
SN - 1975-1621
AB - The present paper discusses the ontic possibility of an unfamiliar and peculiar type of intentionality, with reference to Ruth Millikan's theory of proper functions and intentionality. It is quite remarkable that Millikan's theory just mentioned could imply that biological devices such as eyes, heart, and lung may have a certain primitive form of aboutness. Philosophers call aboutness of the sort external intentionality. This view of aboutness, by the way, clashes with the traditional understanding of intentionality in which it is maintained that only a whole person with consciousness and intellect possesses the real intentionality that cannot be reduced to any physico-biological properties or functions. In this paper the author pursues the matter of whether and in what way the idea of external intentionality can have theoretical relevance to building a general theory of intentionality. More precisely put: the author, in connection with Millikan's ideas of proper functions, attempts to clarify a central tenet of the recent externalistic view of intentionality, i.e. the thesis that some intentional states include actual objects outside the mind in a direct manner.
KW - Millikan;Intentionality;Proper Function;Naturalism
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Youngjin Kiem. (2005). The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 2, 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. 2005, "The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.2, pp.93-113.
Youngjin Kiem "The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 2 pp.93-113 (2005) : 93.
Youngjin Kiem. The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function. 2005; 2 : 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. "The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.2(2005) : 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 2, 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2005; 2 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function. 2005; 2 : 93-113.
Youngjin Kiem. "The Intentionality of the Mind and Millikan's Theory of Proper Function" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.2(2005) : 93-113.
