Marking the Mark of the Mental

Alberto Voltolini (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind whose works have focused mainly on intentionality, depiction and fiction, perception, and Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin (Italy). He has got scholarships at the Universities of Geneva and Sussex. He has been visiting professor at the Universities of California, Riverside (1998), Australian National University, Canberra (2007), Barcelona (2010), London (2015), Auckland (2007, 2018), Antwerp (2019). He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (2002-2008), of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009-2012), and of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (2018-2023). His publications include How Ficta Follow Fiction (Springer, 2006), as well as the “Fictional Entities” and the “Fiction” entries (with F. Kroon) of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction (Palgrave, 2015) and Down But Not Out (Springer, 2022).

• 1 Introduction.- Section 1: Intentionality.- 2 Brentano’s “Intentional In-Existence of the Object” as the Defining Mark of Mental Phenomena (Mauro Antonelli).- 3 Apparent Relationality as the Mark of the Mental (Laura Gow).- 4 Is Intentionality a Natural Mark of the Mental? On Brentano’s Scientific Methodology (Gianfranco Soldati).- 5 Naturalizing Phenomenal Intentionality (Andrea Pace Giannotta).- Section 2: Experience.- 6 Cambridge Experientialism Revisited (Arnaud Dewalque).- 7 The Copula Theory of Experience Makes Experience the Mark of the Mental (Alberto Voltolini).- 8 A Theory of Phenomenal For-me-ness (Alfredo Tomasetta).- Section 3: Between Intentionality and Experience and the Other Brentanian Marks.- 9 In Defence of a Sui Generis Disjunctivistic Account of the Mark of the Mental (Alberto Barbieri and Elisabetta Sacchi).- 10 Consciousness, Content, and Mentality (Sam Coleman).- 11 Brentanian Marks of the Mental: From Intentionality to Unity (Mark Textor).- Section 4. Other Marks and Further Problems.- 12 Character Traits and the Mark of the Mental (Katalin Farkas).- 13 Love, Understanding and the Marks of the Mental & the Psychological (Kevin Mulligan).- 14 No Marks of the Mental without Marks of the Physical (Tuomas Pernu).