Externalism, Rational Explanation, Identity Premises

In this paper, I develop and defend an “identity premise” response to Paul Boghossian’s argument from inference. According to this argument, externalism about mental content is incompatible with a substantial notion of self-knowledge because it happens to be incompatible with the claim that we can k...

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Autor: Garmendia Mujika, Ekain
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/65607
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65607
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Semantic Externalism
Inference
Epistemic Transparency
Rationality
Boghossian
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Sumario:In this paper, I develop and defend an “identity premise” response to Paul Boghossian’s argument from inference. According to this argument, externalism about mental content is incompatible with a substantial notion of self-knowledge because it happens to be incompatible with the claim that we can know a priori the logical properties of our thoughts. Here, I defend the identity premise response against four different criticisms, and to do so, I sketch the general lines for a picture on inference-engaging and rational explanation.