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Semantic inferentialism as (a Form of) active externalism [PDF]

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2016
Within contemporary philosophy of mind, it is taken for granted that externalist accounts of meaning and mental content are, in principle, orthogonal to the matter of whether cognition itself is bound within the biological brain or whether it can ...
J Adam Carter, James Henry Collin
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Semantic externalism without thought experiments [PDF]

Analysis, 2017
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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From Semantic Deference to Semantic Externalism to Metasemantic Disagreement [PDF]

Topoi, 2023
We argue for an intimate relation between semantic externalism and semantic deference and propose a typology of speakers’ metasemantic views as revealed by their deferential attitudes. Building on this typology, we then offer a classification of metasemantic disagreements understood as verbal disputes between speakers who (consciously or unconsciously)
Philippe De Brabanter
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Semantic burden-shifting and temporal externalism [PDF]

Inquiry (United Kingdom), 2020
Temporal externalism is the view that the meanings and extensions of linguistic expressions can be partly determined by contingent linguistic and/or conceptual developments that take place after th...
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The autonomy of grammar and semantic internalism [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2014
In his post-Tractatus work on natural language use, Wittgenstein defended the notion of what he dubbed the autonomy of grammar. According to this thought, grammar - or semantics, in a more recent idiom - is essentially autonomous from ...
Dobler Tamara
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Putnam's Semantic Externalism Revisited

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
From “Is Semantics Possible?” (1970) to his seminal work “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’” (1975), Hilary Putnam developed his semantic externalism about the meaning and reference of natural kind terms.
Hiroto Takagi
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Is Putnam's 'brain in a VAT' hypothesis self-refuting? [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2020
In this paper, I provide a detailed analysis of Putnam's conclusion (derived from the externalist interpretation of meaning and mental content) that the skeptical hypothesis, according to which we have always been brains in vats, is self-refuting.
Lazović Živan
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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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Comparative review of divine attributes from the point of view of Matridiya and Mu'tazila (with emphasis on news attributes and the issue of vision) [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامه کلام تطبیقی شیعه, 2023
One of the most important discussions of theology among the Islamic sects from the beginning of the formation of theology to the present, which has been controversial, is the divine attributes.
somayeh khalili Ashtiani
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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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