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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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Folk Intuitions about Reference Change and the Causal Theory of Reference
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022 In this paper, we present and discuss the findings of two experiments about reference change. Cases of reference change have sometimes been invoked to challenge traditional versions of semantic externalism, but the relevant cases have never been tested ...
Alexander Wiegmann, Steffen Koch
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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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GETTING TO KNOW A GOD YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN: PANENTHEISM, EXTERNALISM, AND DIVINE HIDDENNESS
Zygon, 2021 J. L. Schellenberg's hiddenness argument is one of the key contemporary justifications for atheism and has prompted numerous responses from those defending the plausibility of belief in God. I will outline a recent counterargument from Michael C.
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Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2020 This paper introduces the concept of linguistic hijacking, the phenomenon wherein politically significant terminology is co-opted by dominant groups in ways that further their dominance over marginalized groups.
Derek Anderson
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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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The argument from moral psychology [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015 The argument from moral psychology is one of the strongest arguments that non-cognitivists use against cognitivism-the metaethical position according to which our moral judgements express beliefs.
Milevski Voin
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