The Paradox of Intentionality

Assuming the Intensional Stance
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-45830-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

The paradox of intentionality is that, even if we conceptualize intentionality primarily in phenomenal terms – something this book argues is inevitable – when we come to construct an intentional interpretation of our own or another’s behavior, we are obliged to adopt an instrumental viewpoint and methodology. Both conceptions of intentionality are flawed, however, meaning that if intentional interpretation is to succeed, it must be securely founded on a conception of phenomenal intentionality that displays a pragmatic source of ontological validity and one of instrumental intentionality which exhibits mereological integrity. Building on the author’s advocacy of intentional behaviorism as a philosophy of economic psychology, proposes conceptual and methodological innovations designed to achieve this. The intensional stance confines intentional explanation to entities that demonstrate intensional fluency, thereby addressing the ontological weakness of phenomenal intentionality, and locates the ascription of intentionality exclusively at the personal level of exposition, thereby addressing instrumental intentionality’s problem of establishing mereological integrity. It additionally advances the idea of Janus-variables to conceptualize how sub-personal (neurophysiological) and super-personal (behavioral) events can be integrated into the subject’s first-personal, subjective, and phenomenological worldview. Hence, the intensional stance provides the perspectives on phenomenal consciousness and phenomenal intentionality that are required for intentional interpretation. This book is of interest to researchers in philosophy concerned with the nature of psychological explanation and behavioral scientists involved with epistemological issues. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foxall, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Philosophy, Law, and Tragedy.- Part 1 . CLASSIC TRAGEDY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF LAW.- 2. Law and Tragedy in Sophocles’ Antigone.- 3. Antigone, Legal Pluralism, and the Postcolony.- 4. Oedipus and the Family/State-Analogy.- 5. Goethe’s Iphigenia in Tauris.- 6.  ‘O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!’.- 7. A Tragic Pas de Deux.- Part 2. SHAKESPEARE, POWER, AND LEGAL ORDER.- 8. Keep law and form and due proportion.- 9. The Struggle for the Throne.- 10. Shakespeare’s Violence Paradigm.- 11. Tragedy Averted.- Part 3. TRAGIC, THE UNCANNY, AND BEING.- 12. The Divine Tragedy.- 13. The Other Faces of Dionysus.- 14. The Tragic as Limit Situation and as Cipher.- 15. Hegel’s Criticism of Kant’s Doctrine of Postulates.- 16. Prometheus and Heracles.- 17. Law and the Uncanny.- Part 4. TRAGEDY AS LEGAL AND POLITICAL CRITIQUE.- 18. Tragedy in the Laws of War.- 19. The Promethean Predicament of Liberalism.- 20. Judicial Decision as a Tragic Leap.- 21. Postmodern Jurisprudence and Aesthetics.

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Foxall is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK, and Visiting Research Professor of Economic Psychology at Reykjavik University, Iceland. He holds a PhD in industrial economics and business studies from the University of Birmingham, a PhD in psychology from the University of Strathclyde, and a higher doctorate (DSocSc) from Birmingham. He is the author of more than 300 refereed papers and book chapters and 40 books. He has held visiting positions at the universities of Oxford, Michigan, Guelph, South Australia, and Durham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales, as well as the British Psychological Society and the British Academy of Management. His recent books include (2020), (2021), and (2024). His principal research interests include consumer behavior analysis, the theory of the marketing firm, the philosophical implications of consumer neuroscience, and the nature of explanation in economic psychology.