Asa Maria Wikforss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asa Maria Wikforss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asa Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Wikforss |
| SIGNATURE | WIKFORSS Å M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Naming Natural Kinds
Externalism and Incomplete Understanding
Sarah Sawyer has challenged my claim that social externalism depends on the assumption that individuals have an incomplete grasp of their own concepts. Sawyer denies that Burge's later sofa thought‐experiment relies on this assumption: the unifying principle behind the thought‐experiments supporting social externalism, she argues, is just that referents play a role in the individuation of concepts. I argue that Sawyer fails to show that social ex…
Social Externalism and Conceptual Errors
I offer a defence of individualism by critically examining the preconditions of Tyler Burge's famous thought‐experiment involving the concept of arthritis. I argue that the thought‐experiment relies on a problematic notion of conceptual error, one of which Burge himself should be critical, given his Quinean commitments. Once this misstep in the experiment is made explicit, individualism emerges as a much stronger position than it is usually taken…
Naming Natural Kinds
Social Externalism and Conceptual Errors
I offer a defence of individualism by critically examining the preconditions of Tyler Burge's famous thought‐experiment involving the concept of arthritis. I argue that the thought‐experiment relies on a problematic notion of conceptual error, one of which Burge himself should be critical, given his Quinean commitments. Once this misstep in the experiment is made explicit, individualism emerges as a much stronger position than it is usually taken…
Externalism and Incomplete Understanding
Sarah Sawyer has challenged my claim that social externalism depends on the assumption that individuals have an incomplete grasp of their own concepts. Sawyer denies that Burge's later sofa thought‐experiment relies on this assumption: the unifying principle behind the thought‐experiments supporting social externalism, she argues, is just that referents play a role in the individuation of concepts. I argue that Sawyer fails to show that social ex…
Social Externalism and Conceptual Errors
I offer a defence of individualism by critically examining the preconditions of Tyler Burge's famous thought‐experiment involving the concept of arthritis. I argue that the thought‐experiment relies on a problematic notion of conceptual error, one of which Burge himself should be critical, given his Quinean commitments. Once this misstep in the experiment is made explicit, individualism emerges as a much stronger position than it is usually taken…
Externalism and Incomplete Understanding
Sarah Sawyer has challenged my claim that social externalism depends on the assumption that individuals have an incomplete grasp of their own concepts. Sawyer denies that Burge's later sofa thought‐experiment relies on this assumption: the unifying principle behind the thought‐experiments supporting social externalism, she argues, is just that referents play a role in the individuation of concepts. I argue that Sawyer fails to show that social ex…
Naming Natural Kinds
Epistemology (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Externalism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Internalism and externalism (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · A priori and a posteriori (1 works) · Commit (1 works)