Title
Phenomenal intentionality: reductionism vs. primitivism
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-24-2018
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between phenomenal properties and intentional properties. In recent years a number of philosophers have argued that intentional properties are sometimes necessitated by phenomenal properties, but have not explained why or how. Exceptions can be found in the work of Katalin Farkas and Farid Masrour, who develop versions of reductionism regarding phenomenally-necessitated intentionality (or ‘phenomenal intentionality’). I raise two objections to reductive theories of the sort they develop. Then I propose a version of primitivism regarding phenomenal intentionality. I argue that primitivism avoids the pitfalls of reductionism while promising broad explanatory payoffs.
Recommended Citation
Woodward, Philip, "Phenomenal intentionality: reductionism vs. primitivism" (2018). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 3.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/phil_fac_pubs/3
