It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?