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Perfect Thinkers, Perfect Speakers and Internalism about Thought Content [PDF]
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]
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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Examining the Possibility of Refuting Philosophical Skepticism by Accepting Semantic Externalism [PDF]
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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New Facilities of Epistemological Externalism for Philosophy of Religion and Facing the Challenge of Diversity of Religions [PDF]
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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Semantic externalism without thought experiments [PDF]
Externalism is the thesis that the contents of intentional states and speech acts are not determined by the way the subjects of those states or acts are internally. It is a widely accepted but not entirely uncontroversial thesis.
Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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Epistemic internalism and testimonial justification [PDF]
According to epistemic internalists, facts about justification supervene upon one's internal reasons for believing certain propositions. Epistemic externalists, on the other hand, deny this.
Egeland, Jonathan
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Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions [PDF]
Externalism cannot work as a theory of concepts without explaining how we reidentify substances as being of the same kind. Yet this process implies just the level of descriptive content to which externalism seeks to deny a role in conceptual ...
Hampton, J. A.
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Self-knowledge, Discriminability, and Demonstrative Thoughts
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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I develop and argue for a kind of externalism about certain kinds of non-doxastic attitudes that I call policy externalism. Policy externalism about a given type of attitude is the view that all the reasonable policies for having attitudes of that type ...
Drucker, Daniel
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Vehicles, contents and supervenience [PDF]
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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