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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Externalism, metasemantic contextualism, and self-knowledge [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines some of the interactions between holism, contextualism, and externalism, and will argue that an externalist metasemantics that grounds itself in certain plausible assumptions about self- knowledge will also be a contextualist ...
Jackman, Henry
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