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Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Externalism (Philosophy of mind)
ISBN : 9780773526495
Author : Brian Weatherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192576880
Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. This stance, that what matters are the correct principles, not one's own principles, has implications across ethics and epistemology. In ethics, it undermines the ideas that moral uncertainty should be treated just like factual uncertainty, that moral ignorance frequently excuses moral wrongdoing, and that hypocrisy is a vice. In epistemology, it suggests we need new treatments of higher-order evidence, and of peer disagreement, and of circular reasoning, and the book suggests new approaches to each of these problems. Although the debates in ethics and in epistemology are often conducted separately, putting them in one place helps bring out their common themes. One common theme is that the view that one should live up to one's own principles looks less attractive when people have terrible principles, or when following their own principles would lead to riskier or more aggressive action than the correct principles. Another common theme is that asking people to live up to their principles leads to regresses. It can be hard to know what action or belief complies with one's principles. And now we can ask, in such a case should a person do what they think their principles require, or what their principles actually require? Both answers lead to problems, and the best way to avoid these problems is to simply say people should follow the correct principles.
Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191534676
To what extent are meaning, on the one hand, and knowledge, on the other, determined by aspects of the 'outside world'? Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology presents twelve specially written essays exploring these debates in metaphysics and epistemology and the connections between them. In so doing, it examines how issues connected with the nature of mind and language bear on issues about the nature of knowledge and justification (and vice versa). Topics discussed include the compatibility of semantic externalism and epistemic internalism, the variety of internalist and externalist positions (both semantic and epistemic), semantic externalism's implications for the epistemology of reasoning and reflection, and the possibility of arguments from the theory of mental content to the theory of epistemic justification (and vice versa).
Author : Jesper Kallestrup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136819438
Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but are instead bound up with the environment. The debate about semantic externalism is one of the most important but difficult topics in philosophy of mind and language, and has consequences for our understanding of the role of social institutions and the physical environment in constituting language and the mind. In this long-needed book, Jesper Kallestrup provides an invaluable map of the problem. Beginning with a thorough introduction to the theories of descriptivism and referentialism and the work of Frege and Kripke, Kallestrup moves on to analyse Putnam’s Twin Earth argument, Burge’s arthritis argument and Davidson’s Swampman argument. He also discusses how semantic externalism is at the heart of important topics such as indexical thoughts, epistemological skepticism, self-knowledge, and mental causation. Including chapter summaries, a glossary of terms, and an annotated guide to further reading, Semantic Externalism an ideal guide for students studying philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489290
It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head. Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal state and processes and things occurring in the outside world. The development of externalist conceptions of the mind is one of the most controversial, and arguably one of the most important, developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, despite its significance most recent work on externalism has been highly technical, clouding its basic ideas and principles. Moreover, very little work has been done to locate externalism within philosophical developments in both analytic and continental traditions. In this book, Mark Rowlands aims to remedy both these problems and present for the reader a clear and accessible introduction to the subject grounded in wider developments in the history of philosophy. Rowlands shows that externalism has significant and respectable historical roots that make it much more important than a specific eruption that occurred in late twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
Author : Susana Nuccetelli
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262140837
Essays on the consequences of semantic externalism for knowledge of mind and the empirical world and for our understanding of transmission of epistemic warrant by inference.
Author : Joseph Mendola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199534999
Internalism about the mind is the view that your thoughts and sensations are constituted by conditions inside your skin. Externalism denies this, and over the past 30 years has become the dominant view in philosophy of mind. Joseph Mendola argues that the externalist theories are false and develops a viable internalist alternative.
Author : Luis R. G. Oliveira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192636584
Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199809097
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Author : Sanford Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199275755
To what extent are meaning, on the one hand, and knowledge, on the other, determined by aspects of the 'outside world'? Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology presents twelve specially written essays exploring these debates in metaphysics and epistemology and the connections between them. In so doing, it examines how issues connected with the nature of mind and language bear on issues about the nature of knowledge and justification (and vice versa).Topics discussed include the compatibility of semantic externalism and epistemic internalism, the variety of internalist and externalist positions (both semantic and epistemic), semantic externalism's implications for the epistemology of reasoning and reflection, and the possibility of arguments from the theoryof mental content to the theory of epistemic justification (and vice versa).
Author : Sanford Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107063501
This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.
Author : Tomas Marvan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443804035
A distinguished team of fourteen European philosophers addresses the current debates on internalism versus externalism in the philosophy of language and mind. The main objective of the volume is to demonstrate the philosophical significance and fruitfulness of the internalism/externalism debate on a wide range of issues, and to do so in a manner which is sophisticated yet accessible to non-specialists. The issues authors deal with include linguistic deference, interpreting classical externalist thought-experiments by Putnam and Burge, the nature of Wittgenstein’s externalism, apriority, intersubjective externalism, and object-dependence of thought and temporal externalism. Some of the contributors try to strike a balance between internalist and externalist position.
Author : Jeff Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197754191
Just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically inaccurate. Systemic oppression has influenced the processes that theories of mind or language purport to identify; it has also made it so that most middle-to-upper class White men are ignorant of systemic oppression. Consequently, most theories of mind or language are systematically inaccurate because they fail to account for the influences of systemic oppression. Engelhardt solidifies this argument, exemplifies it with two versions of an influential theory, shows how to remedy the inaccurate theories, and considers some consequences of the remedy.
Author : Richard Schantz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110915273
The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and the philosophy of mind ought to take. This volume is a collection of original contributions of leading international authors reflecting on the present state of the art concerning the exciting controversies between internalism and externalism.
Author : Michael Bergmann,Professor of Philosophy Michael Bergmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199275748
Michael Bergmann provides a decisive refutation of internalism and a sustained defense of externalism, developing his theory of justification by imposing both a proper function and a no-defeater requirement.
