intentionality - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

This idea was reintroduced into philosophy by Franz Brentano in his book Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this ability of mental states to be “about” or “directed at” a state of affairs, such as thinking about a table or wishing a person would leave.

ANSWER: intentionality [reject “intentions”]

[10m] This student of Bretano and author of Logical Investigations incorporated the concept of intentionality into phenomenology, a school which he founded.

ANSWER: Edmund Husserl

[10e] Husserl attempted to incorporate Brentano’s ideas into his writings on the foundations of this field, where he attempted to psychologically approach concepts discussed by Leibniz and Euclid.

ANSWER: mathematics [accept geometry or calculus; accept Philosophy of Arithmetic]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	70%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	8	7.50	63%	13%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford L	0	0	0	0
CWRU C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Kenyon A	OSU C	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan State A	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan C (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Cam D	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	UIUC B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Miami	0	0	10	10
UIUC C	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	WashU B	0	0	10	10
UChicago A	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
UChicago B	SIUE A	0	0	10	10
WashU C	UIUC D	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Oregon State	Ole Miss	0	0	10	10
Texas C	NYU A	0	0	10	10
UW B	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UBC B	SFU	0	10	10	20
UBC A	UW A	0	10	10	20
Stanford M	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Georgia A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Auburn C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech F	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Emory B	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
Michigan D (DII)	CWRU B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Pitt A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Arkansas	0	0	10	10
Central Oklahoma	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Colorado College	0	10	10	20
NYU B	McGill E	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Clark A	A Brandeis Supreme	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	Boston University A	0	0	10	10
Yale C	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Brown A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Northeastern A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Williams A	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Boston University B	0	0	10	10