Under Pressure from the Empirical Data: Does Externalism Rest on a Mistaken Psychological Theory?
The tradition of semantic externalism that follows Kripke (1972) and Putnam (1975) is built on the assumption that the folk have essentialist commitments about natural kinds. Externalists commonly take the body of empirical data concerning psychological essentialism as support for this claim. Howe...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2007
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/27 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=philosophy_theses |