

Latter and, indeed, can play an important role in such determination.Įxternalism appears in two major forms. Individual, the former will at least partially determine the Individual’s bodily occurrences do not completelyĭetermine which mental occurrences are had or undergone by that

On its own is intended to convey that even if an The claim that this does not always happen. Externalism, generically at least, is merely committed to Many-in which mental occurrences are fixed by bodily Not always permits there to be cases-perhaps States, processes had or undergone by that individual.

do not always, on their own, determine the mental, Individual’s bodily (including neural) events, states, Traditionally taken as the crucial determinant of an Individual’s skin and, of course, includes the brain, The individual which, in creatures such as us, coincide with the Theīody, in this sense, delineates the biological boundaries of Occurrences undergone by an individual at any given time. Mind, in this sense, simply denotes the totality of mental Own, fix what is going on inside that individual’s mind. Is going on inside an individual’s body does not always, on its In the philosophy of mind, externalism is the view that what
