ABSTRACT
This chapter considers various accounts of intentionality, with a particular focus on accounts that attempt to naturalize intentional content. We examine tracking (causal) accounts of content of the kind developed by Fred Dretske and Jerry Fodor; teleological accounts of content (teleosemantics), as developed by Ruth Millikan; Daniel Dennett–s interpretational account (involving the intentional stance); and the phenomenal intentionality account of content, as developed by Brian Loar, Terry Horgan, and Angela Mendelovici. The chapter also discusses the cognitive phenomenology debate, which concerns the nature of conscious thought. The normativity of intentionality is also considered, as is the relationship between mental content and linguistic content.
