DECONSTRUCTING DENNETT DARWIN

Daniel Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, offers a naturalistic teleology and a theory of the intentionality of the mental. Both are g rounded in a neo-Darwinian account of evolutionary adaptation. I argue that Dennett's empirical assumptions about the evolution of psycholog ical phenotypes may well be unwarranted; and that, in any event, the i ntentionality of minds is quite different from, and not reducible to, the intensionality of selection.