Phenomenal Externalism or If Meanings Ain't in the Head, Where Are Qualia?
Philosophical Issues 1996 Fred Dretske 140 citations
prominent citizens of the mind, and beliefs are individuated in terms of what they are beliefs about. I know of no plausible psychosemantics, no plausible theory of what makes one thing about another, that isn't externalist in character. It is the relations -causal, informational, historical, or whateverthat, on a given Sunday afternoon, makes something in my brain about football rather than...