Editing Intentionality (section)

== Phenomenal intentionality ==

''Phenomenal intentionality'' is the type of intentionality grounded in phenomenal or conscious mental states.<ref name="Bourget2">{{cite web |last1=Bourget |first1=David |last2=Mendelovici |first2=Angela |title=Phenomenal Intentionality |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/phenomenal-intentionality/ |website=the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition) |date=29 August 2016 |access-date=13 October 2020 |archive-date=19 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019131327/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/phenomenal-intentionality/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It contrasts with ''non-phenomenal intentionality'', which is often ascribed to e.g. language and unconscious states. The distinction is important to philosophers who hold that phenomenal intentionality has a privileged status over non-phenomenal intentionality. This position is known as the ''phenomenal intentionality theory''. This privileged status can take two forms. In the moderate version, phenomenal intentionality is privileged because other types of intentionality depend on it or are grounded in it.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kriegel |first1=Uriah |title=Phenomenal intentionality |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780199764297 |chapter=Chapter 1: The Phenomenal Intentionality Research Program}}</ref> They are therefore not intrinsically intentional. The stronger version goes further and denies that there are other types of intentionality.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strawson |first1=Galen |title=Real materialism and other essays |date=2008 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199267422 |language=en |chapter=Real Intentionality 3: Why Intentionality Entails Consciousness}}</ref> ''Phenomenal intentionality theory'' is commonly contrasted with [[Metaphysical naturalism|naturalism]] about intentionality, the view that intentional properties are reducible to natural properties as studied by the [[natural sciences]].<ref name="Bourget2"/>