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Conceptual errors and social externalism

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:00 authored by Sarah SawyerSarah Sawyer
Åsa Maria Wikforss has proposed a response to Burge's thought experiments in favour of social externalism, one which allows the individualist to maintain that narrow content is truth¿conditional without being idiosyncratic. The narrow aim of this paper is to show that Wikforss's argument against social externalism fails, and hence that the individualist position she endorses is inadequate. The more general aim is to attain clarity on the social externalist thesis. Social externalism need not rest, as is typically thought, on the possibility of incomplete linguistic understanding or conceptual error. I identify the unifying principle that underlies the various externalist thought-experiments.

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  • Published

Journal

Philosophical Quarterly

ISSN

0031-8094

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

211

Volume

53

Page range

265-273

Pages

9.0

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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