The Issue of Intentionality in Contemporary Thomis

• Authors: Alvaro Freile

Abstracts

EN

The issue of intentionality is one of the pivotal points in the theory of knowledge. Depending on how intentionality is understood, one can be a realist, a nominalist, or an idealist. For that reason, modern Thomists widely discuss this theme. The four different positions in this debate are: the first three, which are considered reductive views are: “identity view of representationalism,” “direct realism,” and “similarity theory.” The fourth is considered a non-reductive view and can be called primitive intentionality theory. The paper concludes that the most adequate way to understand intentionality is a non-reductive view, not exactly the same as the “primitive intentionality theory,” but rather a view that considers esse intentionale as a metaphysical mode of being which solves the question of the existence of known objects.

Keywords

EN

intentionality; epistemology; Neo-Thomism; esse intentionale; Thomas Aquinas; realism

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 207-228

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Alvaro Freile

• Universidad Hemisferios in Ecuador

• https://orcid.org/0000000215901317

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26385/SG.110208

Biblioteka Nauki

2057141