How can a physical state be about
something beyond itself? Compare causal,
teleological and inferential-role
accounts, and where each still leaves
aboutness unexplained.

How Can a Thought Be About Something?

Where each account still smuggles aboutness in.

Prompt

Explain the problem of intentionality: how a physical state can be about something beyond itself. Compare causal, teleological and inferential-role accounts, and where each still leaves the aboutness unexplained.