Intentionality:
"Frankly, I prefer the word "psi research" to "parapsychology." But the defenders of the latter term point out that for them "para" means "alongside of" not "beyond" or "outside of" psychology.
And for me, psychology is the scientific study of behavior, experience, and intention."
Stanley Krippner
"Intentionality is the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. The puzzles of intentionality lie at the interface between the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. The word itself, which is of medieval Scholastic origin, was rehabilitated by Franz Brentano towards the end of the nineteenth century."
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/
"Consciousness has also been taken to consist in the monitoring of one's own states of mind (e.g., by forming thoughts about them, or by somehow "sensing" them), or else in the accessability of information to one's capacities for rational control or self-report. Intentionality has to do with the directedness or aboutness of mental states — the fact that, for example, one's thinking is of or about something. Intentionality includes, and is sometimes taken to be equivalent to, what is called ‘mental representation."
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
- 1. The history of the term
- 2. The history of the problem
- 3. Before Plato
- 4. Plato
- 5. Aristotle
- 6. After Aristotle: The Stoics
- Bibliography
- Other Internet Resources
- Related Entries
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality-ancient/
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