Contemporary discussions of the nature of intentionality werelaunched and many of them were anticipated by Franz Brentano (1874,88–89) in his book, Psychology From an Empiric… See more

Many non-intentional relations hold of concrete particulars in spaceand time. If and when they … See more

The problem of the relational nature of the contents of true singularthoughts can be made more acute by the following puzzle that exercisedGottlob Frege (1892): how can one rat… See more

When Brentano reflected on the “quasi-relational” natureof the intentionality of thoughts about things that need notexist, he wrote that if one “is denying something, the existenceo… See more

Within the orthodox paradigm in the philosophy of mind and languageof the 1960’s and 1970’s, there was an important swing of the pendulumaway from the implication… See more