A simple plea for teachers to employ clearer language is weak advice it will be welcome, but what will be more effective is recognizing and calling out mistaken references to intentionality in students' answers and even in textbook explanations.
Given the frequently-changing situations IDUs find themselves in, particularly in those periods of their lives when they are street users, they sometimes have trouble recognizing the extent to which their actions indeed are based on planning and intentionality rather than being overwhelmingly circumstantial and reactive.
Internal anthropomorphism or "intentionality" is intimately tied to the misconception that individual organisms evolve in response to challenges imposed by the environment (rather than recognizing evolution as a population-level process).
The short answer is that we should recognize that the criteria for responsibility — intentionality and moral capacity — are social and legal concepts, not scientific, medical or psychiatric ones.
But still, in that case one recognizes some broad mental domain whose intentionality is in no respect guaranteed by phenomenal character.
One major reason for the interest in intentionality in medieval philosophy is that it has been widely recognized that Franz Brentano was reviving a scholastic notion when he introduced intentionality as "the mark of the mental" (Brentano 1924).
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But most do recognize that if minds are real, then two problems arise: the problem of intentionality and the problem of consciousness or conscious phenomenal experience.
But without plunging into the details of the internalism/externalism debate about mental content, we can recognize, in the issues just raised, certain themes bearing particularly on the connection between consciousness and intentionality.
This conceit allows me to recognize that this idea of an originary textuality, which again need not be understood as a crude authorial intentionality, always receeds from grasp, is always modified and mediated by the ages across which the message travels – rather like Jessica's conveyor belt analogy, or, perhaps, a game of telephone.
Once we broaden our perspective to recognize that each individual aims to maintain rationality at the collective level, it's no longer clear that there is such a gap or discontinuity between the intentionality at the level of the individuals and of the group.
