2600 words What do “normativity” and “intentionality” mean? What “normativity” means has implications for many things in philosophy and science. Normativity has been distinguished between “semantic normativity” and “conceptual normativity” (Skorupski, 2007). On the semantic version, “any normative predicate is definitionally reducible to a reason predicate” and on the conceptual version “the sole normative ingredient … Continue reading Why Purely Physical Things Will Never Be Able to Think: The Irreducibility of Intentionality to Physical States