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Zusatztext certainly the most developed, sustained, and astute critical investigation of externalism about mental content... It is an elegant work - one that both demands and rewards careful attention. It should be noted, as well, that, at times, it seems as if nearly every matter of more than passing interest in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language during the past few decades is taken up in the volume. Informationen zum Autor Joseph Mendola is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. He is the author of Human Thought (Kluwer) and Goodness and Justice (Cambridge University Press). Klappentext Internalism about the mind is the view that your thoughts and sensations are constituted by conditions inside your skin. Externalism denies this, and over the past thirty years has become the dominant view in philosophy of mind. Joseph Mendola argues that the externalist theories are false and develops a viable internalist alternative. Zusammenfassung Internalism about the mind is the view that your thoughts and sensations are constituted by conditions inside your skin. Externalism denies this, and over the past thirty years has become the dominant view in philosophy of mind. Joseph Mendola argues that the externalist theories are false and develops a viable internalist alternative. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Part I: On Some Misleading Cases 2: Externalist Cases and Internalist Theory 3: Internalist Cases and Externalist Theory 4: The Real Moral Part II: Mind-Based Externalism and Sensory Content 5: Against Etiological Semantics 6: Non-Etiological Mind-Based Externalism 7: Qualia and Sensory Content Part III: Language-Based Externalism and Thought Content 8: Private Language and Privileged Access 9: Language, Truth, and Inference 10: Qualia Empiricism Bibliography
