Department of Philosophy
ONLINE JOINT SEMINAR
The University of Hong Kong
Lingnan University
National University of Singapore
Externalism Without Deference
Herman Cappelen & Max Deutsch
University of Hong Kong
Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/6733964050
Abstract:
The received view is that the externalist tradition from Kripke, Putnam, and Burge at its core appeals to deference. For Putnam and Burge, it’s deference to experts. For Kripke, it’s deference to your linguistic community. We show that externalists should reject these appeals to deference: they are remnants of internalism and fail for broadly the same kinds of reasons that traditional descriptivism fails. This is one part of a broader project of developing what we call Pure Externalism, according to which the externalist tradition has not been sufficiently externalist and its core tenets misidentified.
Thursday
25 February 2021
4:00-5:45 pm
For inquiries:
Amit Chaturvedi
amitc@hku.hk