externalism

This is by no means the only meaning of externalism now.

Externalism - Outside sources of knowledge can be used to justify a belief.

There are two broad subspecies of externalism: social and environmental.

Externalism about the mind and mental content is a pervasive theme in his work.

Externalism stresses the importance of factors external to the nervous system.

Thus Wilson thinks that this global externalism goes both too far and not far enough.

As to the mind, by and large, situated cognition paves the way to various form of externalism.

In practice, the line between internalism and externalism can be incredibly fuzzy.

Semantic externalism suggests that the mental content does not supervene on what is in the head.

However, there have been numerous arguments for externalism that do not involve science-fiction scenarios.

The traditional discussion on externalism was centered around the semantic aspect of mental content.

In the latter half of the twentieth century externalism about meaning became espoused by many philosophers.

The second seems to amount more to a statement of the internalist position than an independent argument against externalism.

We have mentioned, but not adopted, two positions which show promise in this respect: externalism and anti-realism.

Externalism articulates the belief that the mind is not just the brain or what the brain does.

This is the essential thesis of semantic externalism.

Proponents of externalism maintain that the surrounding world is in some sense constitutive of the mind.

There are various form of externalism that consider either the content or the vehicles of the mind or both.

Furthermore, externalism could be limited to cognition, or it could address broader issues of consciousness.

This led Putnam to adopt a version of semantic externalism with regard to meaning and mental content.

The question then arises of the possibility of reconciling externalism with holism.

Of course, internalists do not let the debate rest there; see externalism (epistemology).

Phenomenal externalism suggests that the phenomenal aspects of the mind are external to the body.

There are different versions of externalism based both on the strength of the relation, and on what the mind is taken to be.

He defends a position he himself dubbed radical externalism perhaps because of its ontological consequences.