The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism-Externalism

ISBN-13: 9781032176215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Sanjit Chakraborty

Opis

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalism and externalism, the location of content, and the indeterminacy of meaning in language.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Journey From Ontology Towards Semantics 2. Semantic Canvas: Mind and World 3. Meaning Atomism, Meaning Holism and Indeterminacy of Meaning 4. Self-Knowledge and Externalist Appeals 5. Comeback to Phenomenology from Language 6. Beyond Internalism–Externalism. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Sanjit Chakraborty is currently a teaching faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, and was previously a member of the faculty at the Department of Philosophy at Central University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism (2016). He has also extensively published papers in journals and edited volumes on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology and Indian philosophy.