Single Idea 8126

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism]

Full Idea

Anti-individualism is the view that not all of an individual's mental states and events can be type-individuated independently of the nature of the entities in the individual's physical or social environment environment.

Gist of Idea

Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states

Source

Tyler Burge (Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000 [2005], p.453)

Book Reference

Burge,Tyler: 'Foundations of the Mind' [OUP 2007], p.453


A Reaction

While the Twin Earth experiment emphasises the physical environment, Burge has been responsible for emphasising the social environment. The suspicion is that the whole concept of 'individual' minds will collapse on this view.