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Perfect Thinkers, Perfect Speakers and Internalism about Thought Content [PDF]

Organon F, 2023
In the following paper I propose an argument against internalism about thought content. After a brief preview of the recent debate between Sarah Sawyer and Åsa Wikforss, the paper outlines the central issue in their discussion.
Madelaine Angelova-Elchinova
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Extended Cognition: Feedback Loops and Coupled Systems [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2017
The article explores two waves of active externalism. I first introduce the distinction between passive and active externalism and analyse a proposal of active externalism based on the principle of parity proposed by Clark and Chalmers.
Olga Markic
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New Facilities of Epistemological Externalism for Philosophy of Religion and Facing the Challenge of Diversity of Religions [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022
In this paper, it is shown that as people often convert their beliefs into knowledge through many external means, knowledge cannot be considered exclusive in a justified belief where its justification has been achieved internally.
Hamidreza Ayatollahy
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Examining the Possibility of Refuting Philosophical Skepticism by Accepting Semantic Externalism [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2019
According to semantic externalism, the meaning of some words and thus the content of some of our mental states is determined at least partly by features of the external world. For the first time, Putnam has tried to argue that accepting externalism leads
Hamid Alaeinejad
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Accepting the Povinelli-Henley Challenge [PDF]

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022
In the recent twenty-year retrospective issue of Animal Behavior and Cognition, Povinelli and Henley (2020) argue that a host of comparative studies into “complex cognition” suffer, fatally, from a theoretical confusion.
Nancy A. Salay
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The advantages of neomoorean antiskeptical strategy [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2020
This paper aims to argue in support of the neo-Moorean attempt(s) to solve a skeptical paradox. It defends the thesis that neo-Mooreans retain advantages and avoid disadvantages of rival anti-skeptical strategies - namely epistemic contextualism.
Mijić Jelena
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Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts

Organon F, 2020
According to content externalism, the content of our thought is partly determined by the linguistic environment responsible for it. However, there is growing skepticism about the compatibility of content externalism and self-knowledge.
Huiyuhl Yi
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Vehicles, contents and supervenience [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2018
In this paper, I provide an argument for the assumption that contents supervene on vehicles, which is based on the explanatory role of representations in the cognitive sciences.
Vosgerau Gottfried
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The Semantic Realism/Anti-Realism Dispute and Knowledge of Meanings

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
Here the relationship between understanding and knowledge of meaning is discussed from two different perspectives: that of Dummettian semantic anti-realism and that of the semantic externalism of Putnam and others.
Panu Raatikainen
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Why Privileged Self-Knowledge and Content Externalism are Compatible

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2015
In the last twenty-five years, several authors have raised problems to the thesis that privileged self-knowledge is compatible with content externalism.
Sergio Armando Gallegos
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