Ideas of Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh, by Theme
[, fl. 2013, Professors at St Andrew's, and at the University of Texas at Austin.]
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2. Reason / E. Argument / 1. Argument
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18405
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A 'teepee' argument has several mutually supporting planks to it
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Prioprioception focuses on your body parts, not on your self, or indexicality
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18425
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We can acquire self-knowledge with mirrors, not just with proprioception and introspection
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Proprioception is only immune from error if you are certain that it represents the agent
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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Folk Functionalism is a Ramsification of our folk psychology
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
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If some of our thought is tied to its context, it will be hard to communicate it
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It is assumed that indexical content is needed to represent the perspective of perception
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All information is objective, and purely indexical information is not much use
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You don't remember your house interior just from an experienced viewpoint
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Our beliefs and desires are not organised around ourselves, but around the world
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Indexicality is not significantly connected to agency
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Fregeans can't agree on what 'senses' are
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Possible worlds accounts of content are notoriously coarse-grained
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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18423
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All indexicals can be expressed non-indexically
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Indexicals are just non-constant in meaning, and don't involve any special concepts
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18414
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Fregeans say 'I' differs in reference, so it must also differ in sense
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / a. Contextual meaning
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The basic Kaplan view is that there is truth-conditional content, and contextual character
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It is proposed that a huge range of linguistic items are context-sensitive
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 2. Acting on Beliefs / b. Action cognitivism
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We deny that action involves some special class of beliefs
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