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Semantic Externalism.
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 im...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Semantic Externalism; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Descriptivism; 1.1 Descriptivism expounded; 1.2 The identity argument; 1.3 Puzzles about belief; 1.4 Sense, linguistic meaning and communication; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 2. Referentialism; 2.1 Rigidity and direct reference; 2.2 Kripke's modal argument; 2.3 Rigidification; 2.4 Referentialist belief ascriptions; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 3. From language to thought; 3.1 Putnam's Twin Earth argument.
- 3.2 Internalist rejoinders to the Twin Earth argument3.3 Burge's arthritis argument; 3.4 Internalist rejoinders to the arthritis argument; 3.5 Davidson's Swampman argument; 3.6 Externalist rejoinders to the Swampman argument; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 4. Varieties of narrow and wide content; 4.1 Object-dependent thoughts; 4.2 Indexicality and egocentric thoughts; 4.3 Two-factor theories of content; 4.4 Natural kind concepts revisited; 4.5 The metaphysics of content properties; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 5. Self-knowledge.
- 5.1 Introducing self-knowledge5.2 Entitlement to self-knowledge; 5.3 Incompatibilism; 5.4 Slow switching; 5.5 Reasoning; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 6. Scepticism; 6.1 Scepticism about self-knowledge; 6.2 External world scepticism; 6.3 Putnam's proof; 6.4 Mckinsey's recipe; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Chapter 7. Mental causation; 7.1 The varieties of mental causation; 7.2 The modal argument for narrow content; 7.3 The doppelgänger challenge; 7.4 The explanatory value of wide content; Chapter summary; Annotated further reading; Glossary; Notes.