Aboutness

"This is an excellent book. Aboutness is highly original and represents a major contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language." —Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even be...