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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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Novel externalities

Public Choice, 2023
AbstractNovel externalities are social activities for which the emerging cost (or benefit) of the spillover is unknown and must be discovered. Negative novel externalities have regained international salience following the COVID-19 pandemic. Such cases frequently are invoked as evidence of the limits of liberal political economy for dealing with public
Nick Cowen, Eric Schliesser
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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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Matching with Externalities [PDF]

Proceedings of the The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications, 2014
AbstractWe incorporate externalities into the stable matching theory of two-sided markets. Extending the classical substitutes condition to markets with externalities, we establish that stable matchings exist when agent choices satisfy substitutability.
Pycia, Marek, Yenmez, M Bumin
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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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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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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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