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Single Idea 6173
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism
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Full Idea
Content externalism threatens the idea of first-person authority in all its forms, and does so because it calls into question the idea that the access we have to our own mental states is privileged in the way required for such authority.
Clarification
'Externalism' says thoughts are not simply inside the head
Gist of Idea
Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds
Source
Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.7)
Book Ref
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.141
A Reaction
I am inclined to respond by saying that since we clearly have privileged access to our own minds, that means there must be something wrong with content externalism.
The
16 ideas
from 'Externalism'
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6177
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Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people
[Rowlands]
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6178
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It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity
[Rowlands]
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6156
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The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space
[Rowlands]
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6158
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Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars
[Rowlands]
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6157
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Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds
[Rowlands]
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
[Rowlands]
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6154
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It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack
[Rowlands]
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6152
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Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware
[Rowlands]
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6161
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Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding
[Rowlands]
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6163
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If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected
[Rowlands]
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6159
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Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world
[Rowlands]
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6168
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The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence
[Rowlands]
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6167
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Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states
[Rowlands]
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6170
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Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79
[Rowlands]
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6173
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Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds
[Rowlands]
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6174
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If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do
[Rowlands]
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