(Anti)Realist Implications of a Pragmatist Dual-Process Active-Externalist Theory of Experience

Philosophia Scientiae 12 (1):187-211 (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Realism/antirealism issues are considered in light of a pragmatist dual-process active-externalist theory of experience. This theory posits two kinds of experience such that mentality (as a capacity for thinking, hypothesizing, theorizing, reasoning, deliberating) constitutes one of the two kinds of experience. The formal correspondence of theory with facts is characterized in terms of a functional correspondence between these two kinds of experience. Realist and constructivist aspects of this view are then discussed. Active externalism guarantees a kind of ecological realism that allows the theory to avoid radical constructivism or irrealism.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Erweiterte Kognition und mentaler Externalismus.Holger Lyre - 2010 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 64 (2):190-215.
Making it mental: in search for the golden mean of the extended cognition controversy.Itay Shani - 2013 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 12 (1):1-26.
Representing the impossible.Jennifer Matey - 2013 - Philosophical Psychology 26 (2):188 - 206.
The Magical Number Two, Plus or Minus: Dual Process Theory as a Theory of Cognitive Kinds.Richard Samuels - 2009 - In Keith Frankish & Jonathan St B. T. Evans (eds.), In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond. Oxford University Press. pp. 129--146.
Experience without the head.Alva Noë - 2006 - In Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience. Oxford University Press. pp. 411--433.
Externalism and experience.Gregory McCulloch - 1990 - Analysis 50 (4):244-50.
Does the Phenomenality of Perceptual Experience Present an Obstacle to Phenomenal Externalism?Robert Schroer - 2009 - Philosophical Papers 38 (1):93-110.
Neural activation, information, and phenomenal consciousness.Max Velmans - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):172-173.
From Content-Externalism to Vehicle-Externalism.Crystal L’Hote - 2012 - Dialogue 51 (2):275-287.
Radical externalism concerning experience.Crispin Sartwell - 1995 - Philosophical Studies 78 (1):55-70.
Language is a form of experience: Reconciling classical pragmatism and neopragmatism.Colin Koopman - 2007 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4):694 - 727.
Externalism and experience.Martin Davies - 1997 - In Ned Block & Owen J. Flanagan (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. MIT Press. pp. 244-250.
Does Kantian mental content externalism help metaphysical realists?Axel Mueller - 2011 - Synthese 182 (3):449-473.
Aims and claims of externalist arguments.Martin Davies - 1993 - Philosophical Issues 4:227-249.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-06-06

Downloads
23 (#664,515)

6 months
2 (#1,232,442)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

F. Thomas Burke
University of South Carolina

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references