intentionalist

So the challenge to the intentionalist is the following: if there is nothing about representation as such which explains the “feel” of a conscious perception, how is perception supposed to be distinguished from mere thought?

The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

(Debate on this topic has engendered a highly publicized, sometimes contrived, and increasingly arcane argument between historians in the "intentionalist" camp, who hold that from the 1920s onward Hitler intended to kill the Jews, and those in the "functionalist" camp, who argue that the Holocaust evolved piecemeal, as one set of opportunities and policies led to another.)

New & Noteworthy 2004

(Debate on this topic has engendered a highly publicized, sometimes contrived, and increasingly arcane argument between historians in the "intentionalist" camp, who hold that from the 1920s onward Hitler intended to kill the Jews, and those in the "functionalist" camp, who argue that the Holocaust evolved piecemeal, as one set of opportunities and policies led to another.)

New & Noteworthy 2004

(sometimes "intentionalist") analysis, for Bertie to experience the green after-image is for Bertie to be visually representing a green blob located at such-and-such a spot in the room.

Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

If this is to be guilty of ‘the intentionalist heresy’ I am quite content to be excommunicated for it.

2009 June 14 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

In the end, I think too often the textualist/purposivist/intentionalist debate skips immediately to constitutional law, where it is arguably the least helpful (clearly, the clauses are among the broadest and vaguest courts are asked to apply and lawyers are asked to interpret), while there is little focus on how rules and legal language works out in practice, beyond the narrow realm of appellate courts.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism 2010

If this is to be guilty of ‘the intentionalist heresy’ I am quite content to be excommunicated for it.

Sunday Salon: A Poem is not what I Choose to make of it 2009

In the end, I think too often the textualist/purposivist/intentionalist debate skips immediately to constitutional law, where it is arguably the least helpful clearly, the clauses are among the broadest and vaguest courts are asked to apply and lawyers are asked to interpret, while there is little focus on how rules and legal language works out in practice, beyond the narrow realm of appellate courts.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism 2010

It'll make you see "yourself" as a decentralised swarm, thus subverting the Western tradition of constructing the notions of consciousness and agency within a hierarchical, intentionalist paradigm, I imagine.

Clap one hand if you believe in democracy amuchmoreexotic 2008

First and foremost, Dawidowicz was an intentionalist, arguing that the murder of European Jewry was, from the beginning, the goal of Adolf Hitler.

Lucy S. Dawidowicz. 2009