Essays about: "Externalism"

Found 4 essays containing the word Externalism.

  1. 1. Is Externalism Compatible with the KK-thesis?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Balder Ask Zaar; [2021]
    Keywords : Self-intimating knowledge; Cartesian Non-Cartesian knowledge; Externalism s compatibility with the KK-thesis; Williamson s anti-luminosity arguments; The nature of human knowledge.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : In this paper I discuss the compatibility of externalism about epistemic justification with the well-known KK-thesis in epistemic logic. A weaker form of the KK-thesis (if one knows, one is also in a position to know that one knows) is first defended against Williamson's anti-luminosity arguments. READ MORE

  3. 2. Individualism and Co-Operation in Thought: Co-Cognitivism as a Defence of Anti-Individualism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Daniel Carlström Schad; [2020]
    Keywords : Externalism; Anti-individualism; Co-cognitivism; Co-cognition; Social anti-individualism; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Social anti-individualists suggest that the social environment enters into the individuation of psychological contents. This is defended by the now-famous arthritis thought experiment. Nevertheless, counterarguments have been proposed that aim to undermine the thought experiment. READ MORE

  4. 3. The role of identification for the motivational force of moral judgments

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Susanne Henningsson; [2019]
    Keywords : judgment internalism; motivational internalism; externalism; identification; motivation; volitional necessity; self-consistency;

    Abstract : What is the relationship between judging something as good and being motivated to acton this judgment? Motivational internalism is the thesis that there is a necessaryconnection between moral judgments and motivation. Externalists typically believe that ajudgment-independent desire is needed for the moral judgment to be motivating. READ MORE

  5. 4. Does extraversion correlate with style of epistemological justification?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Nicklas Wingren; [2018]
    Keywords : Extraversion; Epistemological; Justification; Externalism; Internalism; Science General; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : We all have beliefs, and we justify these beliefs to ourselves and to others when questioned. The structure that these beliefs are built upon is a rationale, that itself, consists of different types of epistemological justifications. READ MORE