Self-identification, Intersubjectivity, and the Background of Intentionality

A Reply to Anita Pacholik-Żuromska

Author

Christian Beyer

christian.beyer @ phil.uni-goettingen.de

Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

Commentator

Anita Pacholik-Żuromska

anitapacholik @ gmail.com

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika

Toruń, Poland

Editors

Thomas Metzinger

metzinger @ uni-mainz.de

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität

Mainz, Germany

Jennifer M. Windt

jennifer.windt @ monash.edu

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

Two suggestions by Pacholik-Żuromska, concerning the background of “I”-references and the intersubjective dimension of intentionality, respectively, are taken up and related to Husserl's theory of intentionality. Moreover, a number of misunderstandings of my view are corrected, Searle's “regress argument” for the Background Hypothesis is criticized, and a distinction between two functions of the background of intentionality is drawn in order to clarify my view.

Keywords

Background hypothesis | Consciousness | Enactivism | Environment | Intentionality | Interactionism | Interpretation | Intersubjectivity | Meaning | Self-identification | Solicitation