Possible "worlds"

remarks about a controversy

Thomas M. Seebohm

pp. 129-143

in: Frank M. Kirkland, Chattopadhyaya (eds), Phenomenology: East and West, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

J.N. Mohanty is one of the few phenomenologists who has been able to enter a fruitful discussion with analytical philosophy. Most significant in this respect are his writings on Frege. But there is another area which also deserves attention. It is his discussion of Jaakko Hintikka's attempt to explicate Husserl's concept of intentionality in terms of intension, more precisely, the concept of intension which has been developed in the framework of the so-called possible world semantics. Fourteen years after Mohanty's famous paper¹ the situation has changed. Thus it is meaningful to reconsider some aspects of the controversy. Before doing so a brief recapitulation of some points of the controversy is necessary.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund