What Minds Can Do - Intentionality in a Non-Intentional World (Book)

Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. This text has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a persons mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. In the process, the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It should be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology.