Abstract

Remarkably, Mark Rowlands’ new book does something new in the internal- ism/externalism debate. It places the thesis of externalism within a larger, more comprehensive philosophical outlook. The issue has often been debated in what is bound to appear to the non-philosopher as a technical, almost stale fashion. But the issue would not stay with us for so long if it was not pregnant with deeper philosophical significance. Rowlands brings out that significance. He defends the externalist thesis within a more general outlook on mind and reality, thought and world.