intentionality - 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis

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


Clark A	A Brandeis Supreme	0	0	0
Amherst A	Boston University A	0	10	10
Yale C	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0
MIT A	Brown A	0	0	0
Harvard A	Northeastern A	10	10	20
Tufts B	Tufts A	0	10	10
Williams A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10
Yale B	Boston University B	0	10	10