Workshop "Longue Durée Intentionality" (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 25 April 2022) (original) (raw)

The Metaphysical Problem of the Concept of Intentionality

This book addresses the question of intentionality through the intellectual context of enlighs literary theory in the twentieth century. The epistemological methodology, which is presented in the second chapter, is mainly developed from the works of Martin Heidegger, Ferdinand de saussure and Jacques Derrida on Language. The third chapter initially analyses the concept of intentionality in the New Criticism clearing that New Criticism was epistemologically founded on the metaphysical assumptions. Here the ontological discussions of Intentionality by Paul de Man, E. D. Hirsch and Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Micheals are further analysed. The fourth chapter explains the status of the concept of intentionality in theoretical writings of textual criticism and offers an ontological discussion of the concept of 'textual intentionality'. Finally the fifth chapter examines the concept of intentionality mainly at a functional level of language, in the context of Julia Kristeva's account of intertextuality and Harold Bloom's 'the anxiety of influence'. The originality of this work lies in its attempt to analyse the concept of intentionality ontologically and epistemologically.

Intentionality: Some Lessons from the History of the Problem from Brentano to the Present

2013

Intentionality (‘directedness’, ‘aboutness’) is both a central topic in contemporary philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, and one of the themes with which both analytic and Continental philosophers have separately engaged starting from Brentano and Edmund Husserl’s ground-breaking Logical Investigations (1901) through Roderick M. Chisholm, Daniel C. Dennett’s The Intentional Stance, John Searle’s Intentionality, to the recent work of Tim Crane, Robert Brandom, Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi, among many others. In this paper, I shall review recent discussions of intentionality, including some recent explora- tions of the history of the concept (paying particular attention to Anselm), and suggest some ways the phenomenological approach of Husserl and Heidegger can still offer insights for contemporary philosophy of mind and consciousness.

Sunt Intelligibilia Entia quae Sunt Vera. A Late Medieval Interpretation on Intentionality

Filozofia I Nauka, 2022

The aim of this contribution is to present the theory of intentionality proposed by the Spanish Dominican Lope de Barrientos (1382-1469), as it is offered by his Clavis Sapentiae: in this erudite work, written at the turn of the 15th century in the context of the newborn School of Salamanca, the terms proper to the gnoseological lexicon of the Thomist scholasticism are taken into consideration, analysed and renewed in a new original way. This makes possible to demonstrate from one hand how the tradition opened by Thomas Aquinas is inherited in the upcoming Renaissance and from another hand to look how a typical Renaissance scholar as Barrientos builds a theory of knowledge that is original, although faithful to the Thomist tradition to which it has been continuously and cogently referred and consulted.