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Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

James A. Hampton
James A. Hampton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, [email protected]
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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.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 74
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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