Intentionality

References and further reading

	Anscombe, G.E.M. and Geach, P.T. (1961) Three Philosophers, Oxford: Blackwell. (The chapter on Aquinas gives a very clear and nontechnical account of his views on intentionality.)
	Bell, D. (1990) Husserl, London: Routledge (Clear and critical account of Husserl’s philosophy. Chapter 1 is about Brentano.)
	Brentano, F. (1874) Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, trans. A.C. Rancurello, D.B. Terrell and L.L. McAlister, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. (The classic work that revived the concept of intentionality when it was first published in 1874. Difficult reading.)
	Chisholm, R.M. (1957) Perceiving: A Philosophical Study, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Chapter 11 contains the argument for the irreducibility of intentionality described in §1.)
	Dretske, F.I. (1980) ‘The Intentionality of Cognitive States’, in P.A. French (eds) Midwest Studies in Philosophy V, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Useful and accessible summary of Dretske’s reductive theory of content.)
	Dreyfus, H.L. with Hall, H. (1984) Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Wide-ranging collection of essays on Husserl’s ideas on intentionality and their relation to cognitive science.)
	Fodor, J.A. (1987) Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Influential account of intentionality from a physicalist perspective. Chapter 4 contains Fodor’s theory. Original but not excessively technical.)
	Haugeland, J. (1990) ‘The Intentionality All-Stars’, in J. Tomberlin (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives 4: Action Theory and the Philosophy of Mind, Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview. (Clear and readable survey of research in intentionality in the analytic tradition.)
	Kenny, A. (1984) ‘Aquinas: Intentionality’, in T. Honderich (ed.) Philosophy Through Its Past, Harmondsworth: Penguin. (A straightforward discussion of Aquinas’ theory of intentionality and an attempt to relate it to Wittgenstein’s views.)
	Knudsen, C. (1982) ‘Intentions and impositions’, in N. Kretzmann, A. Kenny and J. Pinborg (eds) The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Survey of the idea of an intentio as employed by the leading medieval philosophers.)
	Quine, W.V.O. (1960) Word and Object, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapter 6 contains Quine’s influential discussion of intentionality and intensionality discussed in §2. A classic, but a difficult work for the beginner.)
	Salmon, N. and Soames, S. (1988) Propositions and Attitudes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Useful collection of essays, many of them classics, on the notions of proposition and intentional content. Some technical logical material.)
	Scruton, Roger (1970–1) ‘Intensional and Intentional Objects’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92, 187–207. (Clear and thorough discussion of the notion of an intentional object.)
	Searle, J.R. (1983) Intentionality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A complete theory of intentionality, with material relating to the issues discussed in §§2–3. Chapter 1 is a good introduction.)
	Sorabji, R. (1991) ‘From Aristotle to Brentano: The Development of the Concept of Intentionality’, in H. Blumenthal and H. Robinson (eds) Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, supplementary vol. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Informative discussion of how the concept of intentionality developed, particularly in later Greek philosophy, also with reference to Islamic and scholastic writers.)
	Spiegelberg, Herbert (1976) ‘"Intention" and "Intentionality" in the Scholastics, Brentano and Husserl’, trans. L. McAlister, in L. McAlister (ed.) The Philosophy of Brentano London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976, ch. 9. (A standard source for the origins of the different uses of these terms.)