Merleau-Ponty: Motor intentionalityWhen we talk about motor intentionality, it is important to understand Merleau-Ponty and his thinking on schemas and representations. Merleau-Ponty merges contemporary psychology and philosophy to create his ideas. According to Merleau-Ponty, humans are embodied beings who participate in the world as embodied beings. Embodied coping is therefore an intentionality, or intention, to be about something. Some examples of intentional states of mind are desire, belief, and desire. For example, “I believe that chalk is white” is a propositional attitude. A propositional attitude is a state of mind. The essence of thoughts can be considered intentionality and when this statement is considered true or the logic of motor intentionality can be formulated. In other words, our bodily movements demonstrate intentionality to be about something or for a specific purpose. This bodily movement associated with thought forms a relationship that creates intentionality. In this article, I will discuss what motor intentionality is and explain how motor intentionality is relevant to understanding sporting action. In his thesis, Merleau-Ponty coins the term “motor intentionality” as the intentional activities that essentially involve our bodily and situational understanding of space and spatial features. Motor intentionality involves bodily movements that have both a “mental” and “physical” dimension. This paradigmatic phenomenon can be observed in typing. In motor intentionality, the body is directed towards an object. Grasping occurs toward the location of the object at hand. Our body understands what our mind does not understand and vice versa. The "mental" and the "physical" ...... middle of paper ...... what they wanted and desired since the start of the college basketball season. My final example of how motor intentionality is relevant to understanding sporting action is when a soccer player is going to take a penalty shot. In my opinion, I feel like before a player takes the penalty, he is fully embodied and absorbed in the situation. Before shooting, they have in mind which direction they are going to shoot, which puts all the pressure on the goalkeeper. I think penalty shootouts are an excellent representation of motor intentionality, because both the player and the goalkeeper are embodied beings who are involved in the world as embodied beings. There is no separation between mind and body. In my opinion, I feel like these three examples I provided above explain how motor intentionality is relevant to understanding the nature of sporting action..