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EPISTEME 9.4 now available

This marks the first year we have published on a quarterly cycle and compared with most journals, we are up to date with no backlog: contents and abstracts EVIDENCE AND INTUITION Yuri Cath Many philosophers accept a view – what I will call the intuition picture – according to which intuitions are crucial evidence in…

Searle on externalism

Can you say a few words on where we are, today, in the externalism-internalism debate? I have never been able to see any merit in the arguments for externalism. The most famous account is probably Putnam’s Twin Earth argument. I think he did succeed in showing that the checklist conception of the definition of general…

Understanding the Internalism-Externalism Debate: What is the Boundary of the Thinker?

Here is a forthcoming paper from the VERY excellent Brie Gertler. Since the work of Burge, Davidson, Kripke, and Putnam in the 1970’s, philosophers of language and mind have engaged in extensive debate over the following question: Do mental content properties—such as thinking that water quenches thirst—supervene on properties intrinsic to the thinker? To answer affirmatively…

Towards an externalist neuroeconomics

Here is a recent paper kindly brought to my attention by the author. To achieve the aim of establishing the case for externalist neuroeconomics, I rely on other approaches to externalism in the cognitive sciences which focus on the role of external causal processes establishing mental phenomena in terms of interactions between neuronal states and…