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Husserl, impure intentionalism, and sensory awareness

Corijn Van Mazijk(University of Groningen)

pp. 333-351

Abstract

Recent philosophy of mind has seen an increase of interest in theories of intentionality in offering a functional account of mental states. The standard intentionalist view holds that mental states can be exhaustively accounted for in terms of their representational contents. An alternative view proposed by Tim Crane, called impure intentionalism, specifies mental states in terms of intentional content, mode, and object. This view is also suggested to hold for states of sensory awareness. This paper primarily develops an alternative to the impure intentionalist account of states of sensory awareness. On the basis of Husserl's phenomenological work, I argue that a focus on intentionality at the level of sensory awareness is phenomenologically implausible. The final part offers an alternative functional account of sensory awareness based on what Husserl called "immanent association".

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(2019) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (2).

Pages: 333-351

DOI: 10.1007/s11097-018-9558-y

Full citation:

Van Mazijk Corijn (2019) „Husserl, impure intentionalism, and sensory awareness“. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 18 (2), 333–351.