Externalism, Content, and Causal Histories
作者:
Filip Buekens,
期刊:
Dialectica
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 48,
issue 3‐4
页码: 267-286
ISSN:0012-2017
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-8361.1994.tb00150.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SummaryExternalism in philosophy of mind is usually taken to be faced with the following difficulty: from the fact that meanings are externally individuated, it follows that the subjective character of mental states and events (their accessibility for the person who “has” them) becomes problematic. On the basis of a well‐founded approach to similar problems in the philosophy of action, I propose a solution based on two connected issues: (a) we should think of mental states not as beliefs, but as (defeasible) states of knowledge, and (b) thought experiments, designed to strip off the contribution of the world from the subject's contribution to the contents of his mental states, are doomed to fail. The allegedly subjective character of propositional contentful states (beliefs, desires, meanings) is that they are agent‐specific states. Agent‐specificity is not in contradiction with mental states or intentional actions having a circumstanti
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