| Holism, Content and Context |
| Henry Jackman |
| presented to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2004, APA Central Division Meeting, April 2004, and the European society for Philosophy and Psychology, July 2004. |
| Area 1 Philosophy of Language |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Mind |
| Keywords Holism Contextualism |
| http://www.yorku.ca/hjackman/papers/Locality.pdf |
| This paper will argue that while traditional accounts of word meaning have problems accounting for how the referent of a non-ambiguous/non-indexical term can shift from context to context, a moderate version of semantic holism can do so by understanding the comparative weight of the extension-determining beliefs as itself something which can vary from context to context. The view will then be used to give an account of some of the more problematic cases in the literature associated with semantic externalism. |
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