Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, Jaegwon Kim and Robert Geroch

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18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
Two types of water are irrelevant to accounts of behaviour [Kim]
Two identical brain states could have different contents in different worlds [Kim]
18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
Our meanings are partly fixed by events of which we may be ignorant [Davidson]
External identification doesn't mean external location, as with sunburn [Davidson, by Rowlands]
It is widely supposed that externalism cannot be reconciled with first-person authority [Davidson]
It is hard to interpret a speaker's actions if we take a broad view of the content [Davidson]
'Arthritis in my thigh' requires a social context for its content to be meaningful [Kim]
Content is best thought of as truth conditions [Kim]
Content may match several things in the environment [Kim]
18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
Pain, our own existence, and negative existentials, are not external [Kim]
Content depends on other content as well as the facts [Kim]