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.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.