6.23 Semantic Externalism

Keywords: brains, putnam, thoughts, vat, biv, twin, water, brain, privileged, externalism, burge, english, contents, utterances, content

Number of articles: 48
Weighted number of articles: 48.93595

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic semantic externalism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.71, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 1992, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.97: Raw number of articles in topic 23, semantic externalism.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic semantic externalism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.72, and the median value is 0.25. It reaches a peak value of 4.62 in 1992, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.98: Weighted number of articles in topic 23, semantic externalism.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic semantic externalism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 1.3% in 1992, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.99: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 23, semantic externalism.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic semantic externalism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.0%, and the median value is 0.8%. It reaches a peak value of 11.0% in 1992, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.100: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 23, semantic externalism.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Anthony Brueckner, 1994, “Knowledge of Content and Knowledge of the World,” Philosophical Review 103:327–43.
  2. Anthony L. Brueckner, 1986, “Brains in a Vat,” Journal of Philosophy 83:148–67.
  3. Kevin Falvey and Joseph Owens, 1994, “Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism,” Philosophical Review 103:107–37.
  4. Harold W. Noonan, 2000, “Reply to Sawyer on Brains in Vats,” Analysis 60:247–9.
  5. Jane McIntyre, 1984, “Putnam’s Brains,” Analysis 44:59–61.
  6. Ted A. Warfield, 1997, “Externalism, Privileged Self-Knowledge, and the Irrelevance of Slow Switching,” Analysis 57:282–4.
  7. Anthony Brueckner, 2007, “Scepticism About Self-Knowledge Redux,” Analysis 67:311–5.
  8. Ted A. Warfield, 1992, “Privileged Self-Knowledge and Externalism are Compatible,” Analysis 52:232–7.
  9. Marian David, 1991, “Neither Mentioning ‘Brains in a Vat’ nor Mentioning Brains in a Vat Will Prove that We are not Brains in a Vat,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51:891–6.
  10. Anthony Brueckner, 1992, “If I Am a Brain in a Vat, Then I Am not a Brain in a Vat,” Mind 101:123–8.