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Putnam's Semantic Externalism Revisited
Journal for the History of Analytical PhilosophyFrom “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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Semantic standards of external exposome data
Environmental Research, 2021 An individual's health and conditions are associated with a complex interplay between the individual's genetics and his or her exposures to both internal and external environments. Much attention has been placed on characterizing of the genome in the past; nevertheless, genetics only account for about 10% of an individual's health conditions, while the
Hansi Zhang +6 more
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Putnam on the mind-body problem [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2018 This article discusses Hilary Putnam's views on the mind-body problem, by locating them in the general context of a satisfying pluralistic naturalism that he tried to articulate throughout his entire philosophical career.
De Caro Mario
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Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
Journal of Social Ontology, 2016 There is growing support for the view that social categories like men and women refer to “objective types.” An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property.
Theodore Bach
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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 constitutively include parts of the world.
Carter, Adam +2 more
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On Appeals to Nature and their Use in the Public Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms
Informal Logic, 2018 In this paper I discuss appeals to nature, a particular kind of argument that has received little attention in argumentation theory. After a quick review of the existing literature, I focus on the use of such arguments in the public controversy over the ...
Andrei Moldovan
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PATNEMIŠKASIS ANTISKEPTIKAS, VERSIJA 3.00: NAUJI PAVIDALAI – SENI REZULTATAI
Problemos, 2010 Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti ir įvertinti epistemologijoje pasitaikančius antiskeptinius argumentus, paremtus kauzaline referencijos teorija. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas Hilary Putnamo „smegenų megintuvėlyje“ argumento patobulintam variantui, kurį ...
Jonas Dagys
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Scepticism and semantic externalism
Theoria, Beograd, 2021 In this paper, I analyze the anti-skeptical strategy based on Putnam?s semantic externalism, and developed by, among others, Brueckner and Forbes. Popularity of this strategy is stifled by its seeming reliance on question-begging arguments. My aim is to show that these arguments do not, in fact, beg the question.
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A step toward dynamic externalism
Estudios de FilosofíaDynamic externalism offers a promising framework for explaining meaning change. However, despite references to it in foundational works and Cappelen’s incorporation of it into conceptual engineering, its theoretical foundations remain largely unexplored.
Rodolfo López-García
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