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Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
We present a multiscale integrationist interpretation of the boundaries of cognitive systems, using the Markov blanket formalism of the variational free energy principle.
Ramstead MJD, Kirchhoff MD, Constant A, Friston KJ.   +3 more
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Internalism and Entitlement to Rules and Methods [PDF]

Epistemic Entitlement, 2020
In our thought, we employ rules of inference and belief-forming methods more generally. For instance, we (plausibly) employ deductive rules such as Modus Ponens, ampliative rules such as Inference to the Best Explanation, and perceptual methods that tell
Schechter, Joshua
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Rational Internalism [PDF]

Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2016
I describe and motivate Rational Internalism, a principle concerning the relationship between motivating reasons (which explain actions) and normative reasons (which justify actions). I use this principle to construct a novel argument against Objectivist
Asarnow, Samuel
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Internalism and externalism in transcendental phenomenology

European Journal of Philosophy, 2021
In this paper, I discuss an alternative conception of inter-nalism and externalism for transcendental phenomenology. Recent debates of internalism and externalism in phenomenology start from familiar notions of internalism and external-ism about content.
C. Skirke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Content internalism and conceptual engineering

Synthese, 2020
Cappelen (Fixing language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018) proposes a radically externalist framework (the ‘Austerity Framework’) for conceptual engineering. This approach embraces the following two theses.
Joey Pollock
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The History of Archaeology as Seen Through the Externalism-Internalism Debate: Historical Development and Current Challenges

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2009
While internalism and externalism are nothing more than two categories coined by historians of science during the 1960s (for an introduction to the internalism-externalism debate, see: Basalla 1968; Lakatos 1970; Ben-David 1971 ...
Oscar Moro Abadía
doaj   +1 more source

Responsibility-Internalism Collapses: Conceptual, Normative, and Relational Challenges [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Moral responsibility is a fundamental component of ethics, shaping our understanding of accountability, blame, and praise. Responsibility-internalism, which holds that moral responsibility is grounded in some internal mental states, such as beliefs ...
Elahe Sadeqian, Ahmad Fazeli
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Famine, Affluence, and Amorality

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2021
I argue that the debate concerning the nature of first-person moral judgment, namely, whether such moral judgments are inherently motivating (internalism) or whether moral judgments can be made in the absence of motivation (externalism), may be founded ...
David Sackris
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Externalism, internalism and logical truth [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this paper is to show what sorts of logics are required by externalist and internalist accounts of the meanings of natural kind nouns. These logics give us a new perspective from which to evaluate the respective positions in the externalist ...
Besson, Corine
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Language and scientific explanation: Where does semantics fit in? [PDF]

, 2020
This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception,
Asoulin, Eran
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