"Matters of Intentionality," Research Seminar in Phenomenology 2009-2010, University of Liège, May 3-7, 2010.

The seminar will address the following issues: 1) First, we intend to explore the great diversity of the interpretations of intentionality — psychological, logico-linguistic, existentialist, etc. — as well as how they could combine. Among other questions, we will examine the ontological status of the intentional content (Brentano's "intentional in-existence", Meinongian approaches, Fregean readings of Husserl, etc.), the relation between linguistic and non-linguistic intentionality, the existential interpretation of intentionality, etc. 2) Then, we will focus on the critiques of intentionality, especially in externalism and French philosophy. 3) Finally, we will study the relation between consciousness and intentionality, which is an issue of major importance in current debate. Are these two notions mutually exclusive (theory of qualia, functionalism, etc.) or should we view them as complementary (Brentano's thesis, Husserl, theories of phenomenal intentionality)? In what terms should we, for example, describe the relation between intentionality and feeling? etc. Visit the conference website here: http://www.pheno.ulg.ac.be/colloques/201005_intentionnalite/en/.