Externalism

ISBN-13: 9781902683775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Opis

It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. This book presents an introduction to the subject grounded in wider developments in the history of philosophy.

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction: internalism and externalism 2. Cartesianism 3. Idealism 4. The "radical reversal" of idealism 5. The attack on the inner 6. Content externalism 7. The scope and limits of content externalism 8. Externalism and first-person authority 9. Vehicle externalism 10. Externalism and consciousness 11. Externalist axiology 12. Conclusion: externalism, internalism, and idealism Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Mark Rowlands