Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Reihe: Bradford Books
Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Reihe: Bradford Books
ISBN: 978-0-262-14083-6
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
Semantic externalism is the thesis that the contents of some words and thoughts
depend in part on properties external to the person who entertains them. In a departure from the
widely held doctrine of internalism, externalists maintain that not all mental content is local to
the mind. That view, however, seems to some philosophers to be at odds with our ordinary intuitions
about self-knowledge. This book shows that the debate over the compatibility of externalism and
self-knowledge has led to the investigation of a variety of topics, including the a priori,
transmission of epistemic warrant, question-begging reasoning, and the semantics of natural-kind
terms, as well as other issues crucial to epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy
of language. The essays in the book make clear that externalism and self-knowledge raise many
questions and that there are many paths to answering them. The best way to deal with the competing
arguments, the editor claims, is to follow a principle of doxastic conservatism, which recommends
that, when possible, one should favor the strategy that best accommodates all of the most accepted
intuitions at stake.
