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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"externalism"”.
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
… of Millian semantics – a family dubbed ‘Millian externalism.’ Second, it draws on the work of both Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky to undermine the tenability of Millian externalism, all the while generating insights into the nature of an adequate semantic theory as it proceeds. And third, from the …
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Access and anticipation
… to access, this is a serious problem for externalism. Chapters 2 and 3 offer a solution to this problem and related, more familiar, ones. Chapter 2 lays some technical foundations, by investigating iterated knowledge in David Lewis's contextualist theory of knowledge. I show that his …
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Causal efficacy and externalist mental content
… necessary condition vindicates the idea that externalism is incompatiblewith our commonsense commitment to mental causation. The internalist's core intuition is that only intrinsic properties can be causally efficacious. Chapter two defends that intuition from the common externalist response …
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How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency
… latter fails in its effort to leverage semantic externalism into an adequate response to skepticism. Finally and in consequence, pragmatism's most fruitful contribution to thinking about objectivity turns out not to lie in its treatments of meaning and truth, but in its independent epistemology: …
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Internalism and armchair reasoning
… the distinction between internalism and externalism, which plays a crucial role throughout the thesis. Roughly speaking, internalists think that one is justified in holding a given belief only if one can access adequate evidence for it, upon reflection, while externalists deny this. I …
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A belief analysis of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War
… internalism, and a non-commonsensical, externalism, justification theory along with deontologism as a possible source of motivation behind the internalist constraint on justification. This research concludes, in light of the evidential conditions at the time, that the given supposed …
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Where is the mind of the media editor? An analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience
… on the location of the mind: internalism and externalism. In cinema, the role of editor as mediator between the cognitive activities of filmmakers, audiences and the editing equipment, makes their practice particularly suited for investigating these two seemingly incompatible views. When …
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Kataleptic impression and the problem of justification
… lens of contemporary epistemic internalism and externalism alone. By tracing the historical evolution of the kataleptic impression from Zeno to Chrysippus, and re-evaluating the nature of the Academic objections, I have attempted to demonstrate that the core of this dispute was not merely …
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Language and scientific explanation: where does semantics fit in?
The problem of intentionality is the problem of how some entities can be ‘about’ something. That is, sentences, thoughts, or symbols, among other things, display intentionality in that they are about something else; they are said to be a representation of something. This problem is usually framed …
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Mental Health and Human Minds: Some Theoretical Criteria for Clinical Psychiatry
When it comes to the topic of mental illness, there are three broad areas of concern that are of interest to all of us as human beings—and to the theorists, researchers, and clinicians who wish to offer help—besides knowing what our symptoms are. First, we might be interested in finding out some …
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A "Veritable Jekyll and Hyde" - Epistemic Circularity and Reliabilist Theories of Justification
In philosophical theories of knowledge (epistemology), justification is a desirable property that one's beliefs ought to have before they can be accepted as part of a rational discourse. Roughly, for internalists about justification, a belief is justified if the subject has or has available to him …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of self-deception and explores the assessment of its consequences in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on …