VARIETIES OF EXTERNALISM, LINGUISTIC AND MENTAL

Sanford C. Goldberg

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VARIETIES OF EXTERNALISM, LINGUISTIC AND MENTAL

Sanford C. Goldberg^*

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In the philosophy of mind and language, “externalism” is a label for a class of doctrines regarding the conditions that determine the intentional, representational properties of words and/or mental states. Originating in the 1960s and 1970s in the “New Theory of Reference” for singular terms, by the late 1970s externalist views spread into the philosophy of mind as well. Accordingly, there are externalist doctrines regarding the factors that determine the reference of an expression (as used on an occasion), the linguistic meaning of an expression (in a given language), and the content of a mental state. This chapter presents a historical overview of the emergence and variety of externalist doctrines, the arguments that have been given for them, and the ways in which they have been resisted.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	60-73
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781316779651
ISBN (Print)	9781107173033
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316779651.007
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

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