MindPapers: 2.1b. The Intentional Stance

Andrews, Kristin (2000). Our understanding of other minds: Theory of mind and the intentional stance. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (7):12-24. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Baker, Lynne Rudder (1987). Instrumentalism: Back from the Brink? In Lynne Rudder Baker (ed.), Saving Belief. Princeton University Press. (Google | Annotation)

Baker, Lynne Rudder (1989). Instrumental intentionality. Philosophy of Science 56 (June):303-16. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Bechtel, William P. (1985). Realism, instrumentalism, and the intentional stance. Cognitive Science 9:265-92. (Cited by 16 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Beisecker, David (2002). Dennett and the Quest for real meaning: In defense of a myth. Philosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (1):11-18. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Bortolotti, Lisa (2003). Inconsistency and interpretation. Philosophical Explorations 6 (2):109-123. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Bradshaw, Denny E. (1998). Patterns and descriptions. Philosophical Papers 27 (3):181-202. (Google)

Cam, Philip (1984). Dennett on intelligent storage. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (December):247-62. (Google | More links)

Clark, Andy (1990). Belief, opinion and consciousness. Philosophical Psychology 3 (1):139-154. (Cited by 2 | Google | Annotation)

Cohen, B. (1995). Patterns lost: Indeterminism and Dennett's realism about beliefs. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1):17-31. (Google)

Cummins, Robert E. (1981). What can be learned from brainstorms? Philosophical Topics 12:83-92. (Cited by 3 | Google | Annotation)

Davies, David (1995). Dennett's stance on intentional realism. Southern Journal of Philosophy 33 (3):299-312. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Dennett, Daniel (online). Intentional systems theory. (Google)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1978). Brainstorms. MIT Press. (Cited by 873 | Google | More links)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1971). Intentional systems. Journal of Philosophy 68 (February):87-106. (Cited by 233 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1981). Making sense of ourselves. Philosophical Topics 12:63-81. (Cited by 19 | Google | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1988). Precis of the intentional stance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9:13-25. (Google | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1991). Real patterns. Journal of Philosophy 88 (1):27-51. (Cited by 189 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1990). The interpretation of texts, people and other artifacts. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Supplement) 50:177-194. (Cited by 41 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1987). The Intentional Stance. MIT Press. (Cited by 1920 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Fodor, Jerry A. & Lepore, Ernest (1993). Is intentional ascription intrinsically normative? In B. Dahlbom (ed.), Dennett and His Critics. Blackwell. (Cited by 3 | Google | Annotation)

Fodor, Jerry A. (1981). Three cheers for propositional attitudes. In Jerry A. Fodor (ed.), RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science. MIT Press. (Cited by 15 | Google | Annotation)

Foss, Jeffrey E. (1994). On the evolution of intentionality as seen from the intentional stance. Inquiry 37 (3):287-310. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Foxall, Gordon R. (1999). The contextual stance. Philosophical Psychology 12 (1):25-46. (Cited by 14 | Google | More links)

Haugeland, John (1993). Pattern and being. In B. Dahlbom (ed.), Dennett and His Critics. Blackwell. (Cited by 14 | Google)

Heitner, Reese M. (2000). Is design relative or real? Dennett on intentional relativism and physical realism. Minds and Machines 10 (2):267-83. (Google | More links)

Hornsby, Jennifer (1992). Physics, biology, and common-sense psychology. In David Charles & Kathleen Lennon (eds.), Reduction, Explanation and Realism. Oxford University Press. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Joslin, David (2006). Real realization: Dennett's real patterns versus Putnam's ubiquitous automata. Minds and Machines 16 (1):29-41. (Google | More links)

Kenyon, Timothy A. (2000). Indeterminacy and realism. In Andrew Brook, Don Ross & David L. Thompson (eds.), Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. MIT Press. (Google)

Kirk, Robert E. (1993). Indeterminacy of interpretation, idealization, and norms. Philosophical Studies 70 (2):213-223. (Google)

Lyons, William E. (1990). Intentionality and modern philosophical psychology I: The modern reduction of intentionality. Philosophical Psychology 3:247-69. (Cited by 1 | Google)

McCulloch, Gregory (1990). Dennett's little grains of salt. Philosophical Quarterly 40 (158):1-12. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Annotation)

McLaughlin, Brian P. & O'Leary-Hawthorne, John (1995). Dennett's logical behaviorism. Philosophical Topics 22:189-258. (Google)

McLaughlin, Brian P. (2000). Why intentional systems theory cannot reconcile physicalism with realism about belief and desire. Protosociology 14:145-157. (Google)

Millikan, Ruth G. (2000). Reading mother nature's mind. In Don Ross, Andrew Brook & David L. Thompson (eds.), Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. MIT Press. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Mirolli, Marco (2002). A naturalistic perspective on intentionality: Interview with Daniel Dennett. Mind and Society 3 (6):1-12. (Google)

Narayanan, Ajit (1996). The intentional stance and the imitation game. In Peter Millican & A. Clark (eds.), Machines and Thought. Oxford University Press. (Cited by 6 | Google | More links)

Nelkin, Norton (1994). Patterns. Mind and Language 9 (1):56-87. (Google | Annotation)

Price, Huw (1995). Psychology in perspective. In M. Michael & John O'Leary-Hawthorne (eds.), Philosophy in Mind. Kluwer. (Google | More links)

Radner, Daisie M. & Radner, Michael (1995). Cognition, natural selection, and the intentional stance. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 9:109-19. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Ratcliffe, Matthew (2001). A Kantian stance on the intentional stance. Biology and Philosophy 16 (1):29-52. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Richard, Mark E. (1995). What isn't a belief? Philosophical Topics 22:291-318. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Richardson, Robert C. (1980). Intentional realism or intentional instrumentalism? Cognition and Brain Theory 3:125-35. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Seager, William E. (2000). Real patterns and surface metaphysics. In Andrew Brook, Don Ross & David L. Thompson (eds.), Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. MIT Press. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Sharpe, R. A. (1989). Dennett's journey towards panpsychism. Inquiry 32:233-40. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Shoham, Yoav (1991). Implementing the intentional stance. In Philosophy and AI. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Cited by 10 | Google)

Slors, Marc (1996). Why Dennett cannot explain what it is to adopt the intentional stance. Philosophical Quarterly 46 (182):93-98. (Google | More links)

Slors, Marc V. P. (2007). Intentional systems theory, mental causation and empathic resonance. Erkenntnis 67 (2):321-336. (Google | More links)

Stich, Stephen P. (1981). Dennett on intentional systems. Philosophical Topics 12:39-62. (Cited by 22 | Google | Annotation)

Stich, Stephen P. (1980). Headaches. Philosophical Books 21:65-73. (Google | Annotation)

Viger, Christopher D. (2000). Where do Dennett's stances stand? Explaining our kinds of minds. In Andrew Brook, Don Ross & David L. Thompson (eds.), Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. MIT Press. (Google)

Webb, Sherisse (1994). Witnessed behavior and Dennett's intentional stance. Philosophical Topics 22:457-70. (Cited by 4 | Google)

Wilkerson, William S. (1997). Real patterns and real problems: Making Dennett respectable on patterns and beliefs. Southern Journal of Philosophy 97 (4):557-70. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Yu, Paul & Fuller, Gary (1986). A critique of Dennett. Synthese 66 (March):453-76. (Cited by 1 | Google | Annotation)

2.1c	Eliminativism [88]

2.1d	Beliefs [118]

2.1e	Desires [67]

2.1f	Thinking [17]

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