Non Propositional Intentionality:An Attempt to Make up for the Defects of Propositional Interpretation
Propositionalism has always been the mainstream of intentionality research in western phi-losophy of mind,and people tend to describe intentionality only with propositions.Most scholars revert intentionality research to proposition research,so that"intentional attitude"and"proposition attitude"can be used interchangeably under normal circumstances.When philosophers focus on how intentionality and phenomenology are related to conscious perception,conscious thinking and conscious emotion,it is often too weak to explain these problems by propositionalism,and non-proposition arises at the historic moment.Non-proposition opposes the propositional view that all intentionality is reduced to proposition,and points out that proposition description cannot reasonably cover all intentionality phenomena.With the development of contemporary cognitive science,the study of intentionality from the perspective of philoso-phy of mind has shown an obvious non-propositional turn.Non-propositional intentionality is directed by the research results of propositionalism,and expands to language,perception,attention,knowledge rep-resentation and other aspects,trying to describe the outline of different thinking types and fill the expla-nation defects of propositionalism.