Delightful, Delovely and Externalist

Delightful Lyrics

Some poems are on solemn subjects such as Soul, Life, Fortune, some are on human relations such as Motherhood, To be the Father of a Daughter, Wife of a scholar, A Cock pecked lady, Wife of your Mum, some deal with momentous matters such as no violence please, Nuclear war, NegotiationsThe best tool, some are concerned with Man’s relation with God such as Rich by His grace, To submit to him only...

Internalist and externalist HCI

The history of technology, as a discipline, supports alternate points of view termed internalist and externalist, which terms highlight an approximately similar division in points of view within HCI. Conventional HCI is externalist, rightly concerned with human-centered issues; but externalism risks ignoring important internalist issues. A successful human-computer system is better if it is suc...

In The Externalist Challenge

In The Externalist Challenge

EXISTENCE PROOF FOR A VIABLE EXTERNALISM Externalism, as I am understanding the term, is a thesis about the nature of thoughts, as distinguished from language. For example, Kripke's suggestion that the referent of a public language proper name is determined by its history is not, just as such, an externalist thesis. On the other hand, Putnam, in "The Meaning of 'Meaning'," did seem pretty clear...

Aims and Claims of Externalist Arguments

away from certain aspects of a creature's environmental embedding. We can be explanatory pluralists here, and allow that these different notions of content are fitted for different explanatory tasks. The 'narrower' notions fit into broader generalisations, but cannot provide explanations of happenings under more specific descriptions. Now, it is far from obvious that there can be a genuine noti...