It's called "The Logic-Desire-Belief Structure of Intentionality," and it's 98 pages long (101 pages if you include the title page, table of contents, and abstract).
And speaking of the abstract....care for a glimpse into what's been consuming my husband's life for the last, oh, two years? All right, you asked for it. So here it is, The Abstract:
Intentionality is the concept of how mental states and their content relate to each other. Although intentionality was re-introduced to philosophy by the psychologist Franz Brentano, psychology has not empirically researched much into the concept. The present study reviews the history of intentionality, as it relates to psychology, and argues that people recognize their own and other people’s intentionality through a logic-desire-belief structure. The logic-desire-belief structure was tested by having participants in an experiment read situations containing the structure and an intentional state. The results demonstrate that people are sensitive to the logic-desire-belief structure, and the structure may allow people to recognize intentionality.
Yeah, I don't really get it either. (No offense, Blake.)
But, yay! This is exciting!
Now just for the defense....March 23rd, here we come.
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Intentionality, could there be anything better? People wonder what I spend my time wondering about and what value it has to society. Well..., value? Ummm.... (Insert awkward silence here.)
Intentionality rocks!
Congrats!!
It's the best feeling to be done with one of those. The final defense is just a formality.
Enjoy!
Congrats and Best of Luck!
Congratulations Blake (and Lindsay)! Enjoy the breathing now!
Wow, that sounds like a very in-depth discussion. It reminds me of my "Psychology of Motivation" class where we read a book called The Illusion of Conscious Will - an infuriating book that postulates that we really have no ability to make a decision on our own.
Hooray for being done! Time for a vacation!
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