Abstract / Description of output
The past two decades have seen an explosion of literature on Hume's views about mental representation and intentionality. This essay gives a roadmap of this literature, while arguing for two main interpretive claims. First, Hume aims to naturalize all forms of mental representation and intentionality, that is, to explain them in terms of properties and relations that are found throughout the natural world (not just in minds) and that are not, individually, peculiar to representational or intentional things. Second, Hume holds that the passions are not representational but do have intentionality extrinsically.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e12505 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
| Journal | Philosophy Compass |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 19 Apr 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2018 |