ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. This book focuses on Lewis and Sellars because of what they contribute to our thinking about the social nature of conceptuality, intentionality, and normativity. It considers Sellars's remark that 'The history of philosophy is the lingua franca which makes communication between philosophers, at least of different points of view, possible. Philosophy without the history of philosophy, if not empty or blind, is at least dumb'. The book explains the adequate account of intentionality in terms of what is required by cognitive semantics. It discusses two concepts that are discursive intentionality, the capacity to engage in linguistic semantic contents within a shared linguistic community, and somatic intentionality, the capacity to engage with the ambient environment through a system of bodily relations. The introduction also presents key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book.
