Philosophy is dangerous ground for scientists however socially aware.
But if I am to adopt the belief-desire model above I am taking on a burden so great that many scientists would sooner jettison the model than have to take on the burden. I refer of course to the 'mind-body' problem, which I believe is the reason biologism so dogged the discussions of papers reviewed in Chapter 1. However, it is one thing to use mentalistic language, and another to say that the mental is something entirely separate from the physical. This is one horn of the dilemma. The proper term for the property of mental terms like belief by which they can refer to things in the external world is intensionality .