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Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions

Hampton, J. A. (1998). Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(1), p. 74. doi: 10.1017/s0140525x98320403

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 seeks to deny a role in conceptual content.

Publication Type: Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Departments: School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Psychology
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