Active Content Externalism

Autor: Holger Lyre
Rok vydání: 2015
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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