Active Content Externalism
Autor: | Holger Lyre |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of science 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Internalism and externalism 06 humanities and the arts Externalism 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Extended cognition Epistemology Philosophy Meaning (philosophy of language) 060302 philosophy Multiple realizability 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Causation Psychology Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 7:17-33 |
ISSN: | 1878-5166 1878-5158 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s13164-015-0231-x |
Popis: | The aim of this paper is to scrutinize active externalism and its repercussions for externalism about mental content. I start from the claim that active externalism is a version of content externalism that follows from the extended cognition thesis as a thesis about cognitive vehicles. Various features of active content externalism are explored by comparison with the known forms of passive externalism – in particular with respect to the multiple realizability of the relevant external content-determining components and with respect to mental causation. A crucial result is that social externalism is already a version of active externalism. I conclude with a first sketch of a general account of meaning inspired by extended cognition: a use theory supplemented by a functional-role account. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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