Mental Content Externalism and Social Understanding

Does Kantian mental content externalism help metaphysical realists?

Standard interpretations of Kant’s transcendental idealism take it as a 1 commitment to the view that the objects of cognition are structured or made by con2 ditions imposed by the mind, and therefore to what Van Cleve calls “honest-to-God 3 idealism”. Against this view, many more recent investigations of Kant’s theory of rep4 resentation and cognitive significance have been able to show that K...

Externalism and Self-Knowledge: Content, Use, and Expression

Understanding User-Generated Content on Social Media

Nagarajan, Bala Meenakshi, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2010. Understanding User-generated Content on Social Media. Over the last few years, there has been a growing public and enterprise fascination with ‘social media’ and its role in modern society. At the heart of this fascination is the ability for users to participate, collaborate, consume...

Does Externalism Entail the Anomalism of the Mental?

In ‘Mental Events’ Donald Davidson argued for the anomalism of the mental on the basis of the operation of incompatible constitutive principles in the mental and physical domains. Many years later, he has suggested that externalism provides further support for the anomalism of the mental. I examine the basis for that claim. The answer to the question in the title will be a qualified ‘Yes’. That...

Externalism, Naturalism and Method

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