Well, this was the main topic of philosophy of mind in the 80s, and I think it’s reasonably fair to say that it ended with everyone giving up and moving on. Dennet was one major player. The problems are hairy and not easily summarized.
Yes, I think that’s importantly right. OTOH, the binary judgement is/not intentional is rarely sufficient; you need to go on to specifics. And then the hard issues come back (and they probably generally feed into binary judgement, too!) However >
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Much of the difficulty was due to trying to make a general/rational/context-free/purpose-independent theory of intentionality, whereas in often specific cases are quite clear. That’s the ethnomethodological aqua regia: respecify theoretical problems as practical hassles.
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