Abstract: Extract Externalism about the mind has been an intensively discussed and widely influential view for several decades. I think it is fair to say that internalist theories of mind are in the minority, and even those philosophers who defend some version of internalism often acknowledge that certain aspects of the mind need an externalist treatment. This book is part of a defence of an uncompromisingly internalist conception of the mind: that is, the view that all mental features are determined by the subject's internal states. Externalism, the view that some mental features constitutively depend on facts outside the subject, is mistaken. The book has two parts, and the two parts can be read independently and in an optional order. Part Two relates more directly to some contemporary discussions about externalism, whereas Part One complements Part Two by offering the general motivations for internalism. Let me start now with describing what is...
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-08-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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