What Determines Content? The Internalism/Externalism Dispute

What Determines Content? The Internalism/Externalism Dispute
Author: Tomas Marvan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009-01-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443804037

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.

What Determines Content?

What Determines Content?
Author: Tomáš Marvan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006
Genre: Externalism (Philosophy of mind)
ISBN: 9786612036118

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.

Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism

Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism
Author: Sanford Goldberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107063507

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind

The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind
Author: James Garvey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474243916

Featuring thirteen specially commissioned chapters on core subjects, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind is an essential tool for all those studying and working in the field, purpose-built for use on courses in this area of philosophy. Beginning with 'How to Use this Book' the Companion includes overviews of perennial problems and new directions in contemporary philosophy of mind, an extended glossary of terms for quick reference, a detailed chronology, a guide to research for ongoing study and a comprehensive bibliography of key classic and contemporary publications in the philosophy of mind. From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book is an authoritative survey of the latest research from experts in one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry.

Life as an Experiment

Life as an Experiment
Author: Zdenek Penkala
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443807109

We cannot live a full life unless we know who we are, unless we know the essence of our being. The sciences, which have been immensely helpful in the way in which we live our lives, have been helpless when it comes to telling us how our life should be lived and what its meaning is. Accepting any philosophical or religious belief, on the other hand, limits our freedom to learn directly from personal knowledge of reality, as any preconceived ideas do not only alter its perception, but limit the spectrum of possibilities to which our reason can be applied. To those who do not surrender their right to decide for themselves what reality is, life offers a unique opportunity to apply their insights both in the worlds within and without and either validates or disproves their findings. If they are true to themselves, the continuous feeedback life offers will reveal to them unique characterics of our mind, which are otherwise limited by its own beliefs.

Shifting Concepts

Shifting Concepts
Author: Teresa Marques
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198803338

This volume brings together leading philosophers and psychologists to present novel accounts of concepts, communication, and conceptual change and variability, with the aim to advance the interdisciplinary debate on the role of concepts in categorizing, reasoning, and social interaction.

Justification Without Awareness

Justification Without Awareness
Author: Michael Bergmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2006-05-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199275742

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.

About Oneself

About Oneself
Author: Manuel García-Carpintero
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-01-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191022233

This volume addresses foundational issues concerning the nature of first-personal, or de se, thought and how such thoughts are communicated. One of the questions addressed is whether there is anything distinctive about first-person thought or whether it can be subsumed under broader phenomena. Many have held that first-person thought motivates a revision of traditional accounts of content or motivates positing special ways of accessing such contents. Gottlob Frege famously held that first-person thoughts involve a subject being 'presented to himself in a particular and primitive way, in which he is presented to no-one else.' However, as Frege also noted, this raises many puzzling questions when we consider how we are able to communicate such thoughts. Is there indeed something special about first-person thought such that it requires a primitive mode of presentation that cannot be grasped by others? If there really is something special about first-person thought, what happens when I communicate this thought to you? Do you come to believe the very thing that I believe? Or is my first-person belief only entertained by me? If it is only entertained by me, how does it relate to what you come to believe? It is these questions that the volume addresses and seeks to answer.

The Externalist Challenge

The Externalist Challenge
Author: Richard Schantz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110915278

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.

Epistemic Justification

Epistemic Justification
Author: Laurence BonJour
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631182849

Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge. Presents central issues pertaining to internalism vs. externalism and foundationalism vs. virtue epistemology in the form of a philosophical debate. Introduces students to fundamental questions within epistemology while engaging in contemporary debates. Written by two of today’s foremost epistemologists. Includes an extensive bibliography.