心理内容的外在主义解释及其困境

Externalist Explanation of Mental Content and its Dilemmas

外在主义者认为心理内容本质上是一种关系属性,它依赖于意向心理状态持有者所处的环境。在当代,普特南以"孪生地球"思想试验表达了"意义不在头脑之中"的外在主义理念,而柏奇的社会外在主义则更加深入地分析了心理内容或意义中所渗透的社会因素。然而,面对因果相关性、自知以及空概念的难题,外在主义者却难以给出令人满意的回应。

The externalists think that mental content in nature is a kind of relational property,it depends on the circumstance where the holders of intentional mental states live.At present,H.Putnam illustrates that meaning does not exist in the brain by the thought experiment of Twin Earth,and T.Burge insists on social externalism and analyses the social elements included in mental content or meaning.But the externalists could not respond to the dilemmas of cause and effect interrelationship,self-knowledge and no-being satisfactorily.