ID - 77860539 TI - Intentions in the experience of meaning PY - 1999 SN - 1107127181 1280418567 1139164058 051117800X 0511039727 0511148488 0511302657 0511053703 9780511039720 0521572452 9780521572453 052157630X 9780521576307 9780511178009 9781139164054 9781107127180 9781280418563 9780511148484 9780511302657 9780511053702 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Intentionalism. KW - Act psychology KW - Action psychology KW - Psychology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860539 AB - What do our assumptions about authorship matter for our experience of meaning? This book examines the debates in the humanities and social sciences over whether authorial intentions can, or should, constrain our interpretation of language and art. Scholars assume that understanding of linguistic and artistic meaning should not be constrained by beliefs about authors and their possible intentions in creating a human artifact. It is argued here that people are strongly disposed to infer intentionality when understanding oral speech, written texts, artworks, and many other human actions. Although ordinary people, and scholars, may infer meanings that diverge from, or extend beyond, what authors intend, our experience of human artifacts as meaningful is fundamentally tied to our assumptions of intentionality. This challenges the traditional ideas of intentions as existing solely in the minds of individuals, and formulates a new conceptual framework for examining if and when intentions influence the interpretation of meaning. ER -