STAYING IN TOUCH - EXTERNALISM NEEDS DESCRIPTIONS

Authors
HAMPTON JA
Citation
Ja. Hampton, STAYING IN TOUCH - EXTERNALISM NEEDS DESCRIPTIONS, Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(1), 1998, pp. 74
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
21
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:1<74:SIT-EN>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Externalism cannot work as a theory of concepts without explaining how we reidentify substances as being of the same kind. Yet this process implies just the level of descriptive content to which externalism see ks to deny a role in conceptual content.