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Anti-Externalism (Hardcover, New)
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Anti-Externalism (Hardcover, New)
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Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions
that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations, with
their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin
and contemporaneous. Externalism is the denial of internalism, and
is now broadly popular. Joseph Mendola argues that internalism is
true, and that there are no good arguments that support
externalism.
Anti-Externalism has three parts. Part I examines famous
case-based arguments for externalism due to Kripke, Putnam, and
Burge, and develops a unified internalist response incorporating
rigidified description clusters. It argues that this proposal's
only real difficulties are shared by all viable externalist
treatments of both Frege's Hesperus-Phosphorus problem and
Russell's problem of empty names, so that these difficulties cannot
be decisive. Part II critically examines theoretical motivations
for externalism entwined with causal accounts of perceptual
content, as refined by Dretske, Fodor, Millikan, Papineau, and
others, as well as motivations entwined with disjunctivism and the
view that knowledge is the basic mental state. It argues that such
accounts are false or do not provide proper motivation for
externalism, and develops an internalist but physicalist account of
sensory content involving intentional qualia. Part III critically
examines theoretical motivations for externalism entwined with
externalist accounts of language, including work of Brandom,
Davidson, and Wittgenstein. It dialectically develops an
internalist account of thoughts mediated by language that can
bridge the internally constituted qualia of Part II and the
rigidified description clusters of Part I.
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