This thesis is in two chapters. Chapter one is about intentions. Literary theorists have, by and large, dismissed their relevance to interpretation, so it will be useful to consider what exactly is being ignored. Therefore, I devote chapter one to a clarification of the nature and role(s) of intention within the interlocking network of basic propositional attitudes. I argue that intentions incorporate both a functional and a representational dimension, triggering actional mechanisms and structuring the process of practical reasoning. / Chapter two is about interpretation. I open the chapter with an examination of extreme conventionalist theses, arguing that their success depends on an unjustifiably strict demarcation between intentionality and textuality. Appropriating aspects of Donald Davidson's work in the philosophy of language, I argue for the recognition of linguistic communication as a form of intentional action. I then defend this thesis against more moderate conventionalist theories to offer a viable approach to the interpretation of literary works.

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Thesis (Ph. D)--University of Wisconsin, 1965. / Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 25 (1965) no. 10, p. 5990-91. Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (M.S.)--Villanova University, 2006. / Psychology Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Organisational Psychology 2016 / Recent environmental awareness has led to an expanding interest surrounding environmental consciousness and a greater social shift world over towards energy efficiency and the sustainability of technologies and resources. Consequently, there has been the development of sustainable technologies within the automobile industry including that of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). With the development of these technologies, it becomes necessary to investigate the factors that underpin the use and adoption of them within our society, so as to ensure their greater diffusion, use and adoption. In this light, this study aimed to investigate the factors that function in predicting the Intention to Adopt the sustainable technology of HEVs. This has been investigated in accordance with the constructs of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model. This model comprises the constructs of: Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence and Facilitating Conditions. This study also intended to examine these constructs and determine whether they are moderated by the constructs of Pro-Environmental Behaviour and Dispositional Resistance to Change in predicting the Intention to Adopt HEVs. The sample for this study was comprised of 133 final year Law students from the University of the Witwatersrand. The adapted UTAUT Scale, the adapted Dispositional Resistance to Change Scale and the Pro-Environmental Scale were utilised as the measures within this study. Several subscales of the UTAUT Scale as well as the Pro-Environmental Behaviour (PEB) Scale had low Internal Consistency Reliabilities within both the Pilot and Main study. However, the researcher chose to run the analyses taking this into consideration. Several subscales of the UTAUT Scale as well as the Dispositional Resistance to Change (DRC) Scale had acceptable levels of Internal Consistency Reliabilities for use in conducting analyses. Multiple regression equations and moderated multiple regression equations were run in order to investigate the effects of these constructs in predicting the Intention to Adopt HEVs. The results drawn from this study illustrated that there was a positive, significant effect of two questions concerning lifestyle factors and a reduced taxed levy of the construct Facilitating Conditions on Intention to Adopt HEVs. The results also showed that the constructs of PEB and DRC had no direct moderating influence on Intention to Adopt HEVs. / MT2017

Li Kin Kit. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-51). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Social cognition Models in Predicting Future Behavior --- p.1 / Studies on Intention-Behavior Relations --- p.4 / Goal Conflict and Intention-Behavior Relations --- p.7 / Purpose of the Present Study and Hypotheses --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.17 / Participants --- p.17 / Procedure --- p.17 / Instruments --- p.17 / Analysis --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.24 / Theory of Planned Behavior Analysis --- p.24 / Hierarchical Regression Analysis --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.32 / "Interaction among Intention, Stability, and Goal Conflict" --- p.32 / Goal Conflict: A Structural Stability of Intention --- p.35 / Overall Effect of Intention Stability --- p.36 / Intentionally versus Habitually Controlled Process --- p.37 / Application --- p.38 / Further Study --- p.40

The original impulse sparking this project – namely the paradox of suffering and violence in the twentieth century- guides the reader along an unexpected set of detours, occasionally drawing one away from the usual watering holes of political theory. Along the course, we contemplate the powers of force and facilitation, violence and sovereignty; don overalls and embark on a scenic tour of the inner workings of an internal combustion engine; scramble under razor wire to glimpse the terror of camps and torture complexes; contemplate the soul and its relation to violence and life; creep into ‘a delightful boudoir’, spying acts of reciprocity and consensuality that are capable of pleasurably making possible what was previously impossible; navigate vast tributaries of lubricative flows, across administrative systems, bureaucracies and governments; find ourselves caught amidst the excitement and terror of a surge of flooding bodies; and discover secreted away from the grinding friction of opposing forces, spaces of pure reciprocity capable of generating a true peace. The course of this inquiry necessitates an expansive search through fields of pain and pleasure, of force and facilitation,, of violence and hope. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / My thesis is broadly construed this way: intentionalism, as a theory about perceptual experience, says that the intentional character of perceptual experience determines the phenomenological character of that experience. In some way, to be explained, phenomenology is determined by intentional content. I will show that intentionalism fails on two accounts. It fails to replace the sense-data theory as an explanation of the content of perceptual experience. It also fails to deal satisfactorily with the problem of perceptual illusion. I will then offer an alternative rooted in the perceptual theory of Charles Peirce. I believe his critical but common sense approach preserves the intuition of sense-data theory, that perception is primarily a relation between perceivers and objects. Peirce’s theory also provides a better solution to the problem of illusion.

What determines the meaning of a work of art? This paper considers three theories of art-critical interpretation: moderate actual intentionalism (the artist’s intention partly determines the work’s meaning), hypothetical intentionalism (the work’s meaning is the best hypothesis of what the artist could have meant), and the value-maximizing theory (interpretations which maximize the work’s value are to be preferred). I argue that moderate actual intentionalism is incoherent, collapsing either into the intentional fallacy or into an extreme form of intentionalism. I argue further that hypothetical intentionalism is premised on a distinction between two orders of intention which cannot be maintained, and, trades on a mischaracterization of the force of hypothetical intentions. I argue for the value-maximizing theory, which I claim provides an elegant interpretive framework while being theoretically untroubled vis-à-vis its competitors.

Uppsatsen undersöker och diskuterar begreppet "implicit författare" med utgångspunkt i en hypotetisk-intentionalistisk tolkningsmodell för skönlitterära texter. Uppsatsens syfte är att fördjupa och precisera begreppet "implicit författare", samt att visa hur begreppet kan vara behjälpligt vid en analys av ett skönlitterärt verk. Uppsatsen avslutas med en exemplifierande analys av inledningen till Karl Ove Knausgårds roman Min kamp.