books about: externalism

books about: externalism

books:

Externalism

Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

To what extent are meaning, on the one hand, and knowledge, on the other, determined by aspects of the "outside world"? Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology presents eleven specially written essays exploring these debates in metaphysics and epistemology and the connections between them. In so doing, it examines how issues ...

The Life of the Mind: An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism
G. Mcculloch

Routledge, 2002

The Life of the Mind presents an original and striking conception of the mind and its place in nature. In a spirited and rigorous attack on most of the orthodox positions in contemporary philosophy of mind, McCulloch connects three of the orthodoxy's central themes-- externalism, phenomenology and the relation between science and commonsense ...

Islam Without Allah?: The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran

Colin Turner

RoutledgeCurzon, 2001

Magnificent
Perhaps for the first time, Dr. Colin Turner has shed light on the entire range of developments which led to the emergence of Shi'ite Iran, Khomeini, and the so-called "Islamic revolution." He not only clarifies the religious circumstances leading up to the present ...

Externalism: Putting Mind and World Back Together Again

Mark Rowlands

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003

Nice
I found this book to be brilliant--not in breaking any new ground, but in clearly synthesizing the thread of externalism from Sartre to Clark/Chalmers; not to mention a fantastic summary of the later Wittgestein and crear comparison of content externalism with ...

Externalism and Self-Knowledge (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1998

mmm... self-knowledge
this book has numerous interesting essays by putnam, burge, davidson, and others, focusing on theories of social and causal externalism. articles by authors including maclaughlin and tye, brown, and mckinsey present both sides of the debate as to whether or not ...

The Externalist Challenge (Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy)

Walter de Gruyter, 2004

The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and ...

Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (Great Debates in Philosophy)
Laurence BonJour, Ernest Sosa

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge. Presents central issues ...

The Subject's Point of View
Katalin Farkas

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative. The main project of The Subject's Point of View is to argue that discarding certain elements of the Cartesian conception would be much more difficult than critics seem to allow, since it is ...

The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes

Cambridge University Press, 1999

In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands ...

Body Language: Representation in Action (Bradford Books)
Mark Rowlands

The MIT Press, 2006

In Body Language , Mark Rowlands argues that the problem of representation?how it is possible for one item to represent another?has been exacerbated by the assimilation of representation to the category of the word. That is, the problem is traditionally understood as one of relating inner to outer?relating an inner representing item to something ...

Radical Externalism: Honderich's Theory of Consciousness Discussed

Imprint Academic, 2006

Sets out philosopher, Ted Honderich's theory of consciousness as existence and his response to criticism from colleagues.

Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

This anthology brings together ten papers which have defined and advanced the debate between internalism and externalism in epistemology.

Brains, vats, and neurally-controlled animats [An article from: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & ...
N.C. Manson

Elsevier, 2004

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McCulloch, Gregory. The Life of the Mind: an Essay on Phenomenological Externalism.(Book Review): An article ...
Leonard Lawlor

Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 2004

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Justification without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism
Michael Bergmann

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Virtually all philosophers agree that for a belief to be epistemically justified, it must satisfy certain conditions. Perhaps it must be supported by evidence. Or perhaps it must be reliably formed. Or perhaps there are some other "good-making" features it must have. But does a belief's justification also require some sort of awareness of its ...