Phenomenal Externalism or If Meanings Ain't in the Head, Where Are Qualia?

Abstract

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 philosophy. Thoughts are in the head, but what makes them the thoughts they are is not there.