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The Dialectical Context of Boghossian's Memory Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sanford Goldberg
Sanford Goldberg*
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University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY40506-0027, USA
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Externalism is the thesis that some propositional attitudes depend for their individuation on features of the thinker's (social and/or physical) environment. The doctrine of self-knowledge of thoughts is the thesis that for all thinkers S and occurrent thoughts that p, S has authoritative and non-empirical knowledge of her thought that p. A much-discussed question in the literature is whether these two doctrines are compatible. In this paper I attempt to respond to one argument for an incompatibilist conclusion, Boghossian's 1989 ‘Memory Argument.’

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 135 - 148
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Copyright © The Authors 2005

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