Husserl's Theory of Intentionality

Traces intentionality from Brentano's revival of the idea through Husserl, Heidegger and later phenomenologists. A compact map of how the central concept of phenomenology developed.

Dermot Moran

A textbook chapter that explains Husserl's theory of intentionality from the ground up: mental acts, their content, the noema and how consciousness reaches its objects.

Ronald McIntyre and David Woodruff Smith

Defends Husserl's view that there is no intentionality without lived experience against the criticisms of Wittgenstein, Ryle and their followers.

Uwe Meixner

A master's thesis on cognitive phenomenology, the question of whether thinking itself has a felt character, and what that means for intentionality.

Gábor Matula

Brings the phenomenological tradition into today's debate on phenomenal intentionality, the link between conscious experience and directedness toward objects.

Andrea Pace Giannotta