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Intentionality and the Myths of the Given

Between Pragmatism and Phenomenology

Carl B Sachs author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:6th Feb '17

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Intentionality is one of the central problems of modern philosophy. How can a thought, action or belief be about something? Sachs draws on the work of Wilfrid Sellars, C I Lewis and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to build a new theory of intentionality that solves many of the problems faced by traditional conceptions.

"Sachs has written a perceptive and well-argued book about a set of very challenging authors. If one wishes to understand the deepest issues that thread current neo-pragmatist thought, one could do no better than to pick up Sachs’ book." - Steven Levine, The Philosophical Quarterly

"Sachs’s Intentionality and the Myths of the Given is a worthwhile text. It provides careful and precise elucidations of Sellars’s Myth. It deepens the historical context and understanding of important debates in contemporary philosophy, especially analytic philosophy – for which Sachs’s contribution might be invaluable. And it joins a growing chorus of works that bring phenomenological philosophers into prominent dialogue with more widely read philosophers."Eric Chelstrom in Phenomenological Reviews

ISBN: 9781138731554

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 380g

208 pages