ABSTRACT
In giving a positive account of intentionality, the beginning of wisdom appears to be to note the formal resemblances between the intentional objects of mental entities and the manifestations of dispositions. The intentional object need not exist, the manifestation need not occur. This already points towards a naturalization of intentionality, since dispositions, whatever our metaphysical account of them (a tricky matter), have no special link with mentality. See C.B.Martin and K.Pfeifer (1986) and U.T.Place (1988:210). This suggests that intentionality is to be analysed in terms of very complex dispositions and powers of the mind, dispositions and powers of the central nervous system.
