Intentionality and intersubjectivity
By: Jan Almäng.
Series: Acta philosophica Gothoburgensia -- 21
Publisher: Göteborgs Universitet
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Göteborg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789173465830
Subjects: Intentionality (Philosophy); Intersubjectivity
Notes: Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs Universitet, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-210).

English with summary in Swedish.
Table of contents: title: 1.  Introduction.  The problems of other minds ; Body, mind and other minds ; The analogical theory ; The critical theory ; Functionalism and mental states as theoretical entities ; A brief outline of things to come; title: PART ONE: FUNCTIONALISM, COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND SOME MODERN THEORIES.; title: 2.  Functionalism and the nature of mental representations.  Functionalism and cognitive psychology ; Folk psychology and the representational theory of mind; title: 3.  Theory theory and simulation theory.  A very short introduction to the world of theory theory and simulation theory ; A look at simulation theory ; A look at theory theory; title: 4.  Intentionality and the theory theory.  The generic theory theory ; Cognitive and primordial intentionality ; Theory theorists and primordial intentionality ; Fodor's computational theory of primordial intentionality; title: PART TWO: PRIMORDIAL INTENTIONALITY.; title: 5.  The body schema.  Historical notes on the notion of body schema ; An outline of a notion of body schema; title: 6.  On the notion of primordial intentionality.  Concrete and abstracts movements ; Why primordial intentionality is not reducible to cognitive intentionality ; The intentionality of primordial intentionality; title: 7.  The irreducibility of primordial intentionality.  The first argument against homuncular functionalism ; The second argument against homuncular functionalism; title: PART THREE: THE INTENTIONALITY OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY.; title: 8.  Transferring the body schema.  Husserl's phenomenology of intersubjectivity ; Towards a primordial intentionality of intersubjectivity ; Some implications and a comparison to Husserl; title: 9.  Theory theory and simulation theory revisited.  Attribution of primordial intentionality as cognitive simulation ; If homuncular functionalism were true ... ; Primordial intentionality and belief-desire psychology ; The theory of body schematic transfer and the simulation theory; title: 10.  Body schematic transfer and the conceptual problem of other minds.  Strawson on the problem of other minds ; Disarming Strawson's objections ; Solving the conceptual problem; title: 11.  Concluding remarks; title: Summary in Swedish; title: References.