Externalist Psychiatry

On the use and misuse of externalist approaches in psychiatry

Walter (2013) argues in that a bunch of externalist approaches examined in the theory of mind is interesting for psychiatry—especially for biological psychiatry. The externalist approaches state that mental states are not only constituted by internal but also by external factors. He subsumes them under the so-called 4E-thesis: embodied, embedded, extended, enacted. His example is concerned with...

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...

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...

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...