A note on the intractability of intentionality
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Abstract
Even though some of Putnam's particular proposals have had a huge impact on the philosophical discussion regarding the nature of intentionality, he does not offer anywhere a general theory that would offer a general account of the nature of intentionality. The main goal of the present paper is to explain Putnam's own diagnostics on the alleged «intractability» of intentionality. As it is explained in the article, according to Putnam, within a particular naturalistic framework intentionality has become intractable, but such intractability is not due to some tension between intentionality and naturalism themselves, but due to a cartesian intentionalism developed in the seventeenth century inherited and assumed by most of the naturalistic accounts nowadays.
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Putnam, intentionality, naturalism, cartesianism, realism.