The Background of Thought

In Stewart Candlish (ed.), Meaning, Understanding, and Practice. Oxford University Press (2002)
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Examines Searle's theory of intentionality. The author argues that the three reasons given by Searle in support of his hypothesis of a background, which underlies our intentional states, are inconclusive at best.

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10.1093/0199252149.003.0009

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Barry Stroud
Last affiliation: University of California, Berkeley

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Sharing the Background.Titus Stahl - 2013 - In Michael Schmitz, Beatrice Kobow & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), The Background of Social Reality: Selected Contributions from the Inaugural Meeting of ENSO. Springer. pp. 127--146.

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