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The Question of Idealism in McDowell
At various points, and in different writings, John McDowell recognizes that he is liable to be regarded as a kind of idealist. Thus in Mind and World he imagines someone asking him: Why should we be so sure of our capacity to comprehend the world if not because we conceive the world as a shadow or reflection of our thinking? (1994: 40) And in similar vein, in the Woodbridge Lectures, he anticip...
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This formulation of content externalism is very weak, in that most content externalists will want to be more robust—and, of course, more specific—in their construal of the role that environmental factors can play in determining the content of mental states, and will typically take environmental factors to be relevant to the determination of the content of just about any mental state. Neverthele...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Inquiry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0020-174X,1502-3923
DOI: 10.1080/00201740701859009