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Reflections and Replies: Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge
โ Scribed by Martin Hahn, Bjรธrn Ramberg
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 535
- Series
- Bradford Books
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Tyler Burge has produced groundbreaking work on the semantics of proper names and indexicals, de re belief, formal truth theories, semantic and epistemic paradoxes, the philosophy of Gottlob Frege, and other areas of the philosophy of language and of mind. But he is best known for his arguments for anti-individualism, or externalism about mental content. Burge's aim in pursuing anti-individualism is nothing less than the solution to some of the most trenchant metaphysical and epistemological problems, including the nature of objectivity and norms, the force of skeptical arguments, apriority, and the nature of the self. Central to all of these is an account of intentional content that includes a penetrating critique of the empiricist notion of a concept. This book focuses mainly on Burge's work on anti-individualism. In it, various philosophers either comment on Burge's work or relate it to their own. An unusual feature is the generosity--both in volume and content--of Burge's contribution to this philosophical conversation. The section containing his responses comprises the most sustained, detailed, and interconnected body of writing that he has published in one place.
โฆ Table of Contents
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1Burge, Descartes, and Us......Page 32
2 Anti-Individualism and Scepticism......Page 46
3 When Swampmen Get Arthritis: โExternalismโ in Burge and Davidson......Page 60
4 Burge Thought Experiments......Page 90
5 Anti-Individualism, Indexicality, and Character......Page 108
6 Competence with Demonstratives......Page 132
7 Implicit Conceptions, Understanding, and Rationality......Page 148
8 Burge on Mentalistic Explanations, or Why I Am Still Epiphobic......Page 184
9 Mental Paint......Page 196
10 Mental Content and Hot Self-Knowledge......Page 232
11Phenomenal Intentionality as the Basis of Mental Content......Page 260
12 Internalist Explorations......Page 290
TYLER BURGE REPLIES......Page 320
13 Descartes and Anti-Individualism: Reply to Normore 13......Page 322
14 Some Reflections on Scepticism: Reply to Stroud......Page 366
15 Davidson and Forms of Anti-Individualism: Reply to Hahn......Page 378
16 The Thought Experiments: Reply to Donnellan......Page 394
17 The Indexical Strategy: Reply to Owens......Page 402
18 Tracking Perspectives: Reply to Higginbotham......Page 408
19 Concepts, Conceptions, Reflective Understanding: Reply to Peacocke......Page 414
20 Epiphenomenalism: Reply to Dretske......Page 428
21 Qualia and Intentional Content: Reply to Block......Page 436
22 Mental Agency in Authoritative Self-Knowledge: Reply to Kobes......Page 448
23 Phenomenality and Reference: Reply to Loar......Page 466
24 Psychology and the Environment: Reply to Chomsky......Page 482
Tyler Burge Bibliography......Page 502
Secondary Sources on Tyler Burge......Page 506
Index......Page 526
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