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Constructing the World and Locating Oneself.
1Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
|November 7, 2017
Summary
Analytic philosophy grappled with the relationship between internal and external worlds. This paper argues that problems of world-construction and self-locating beliefs are equivalent, stemming from underdetermined relations between experience and objective facts.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of Mind
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
Background:
- Robert Stalnaker's work presents two views on internal-external world relations: internal given/external problematic, and vice versa.
- Analytic philosophy shifted from world-construction to self-locating beliefs, framing the internal world as problematic.
Purpose of the Study:
- To demonstrate the equivalence of problems concerning world-construction and self-locating beliefs.
- To analyze the underdetermination of the internal-external relation by experience and objective facts.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of philosophical positions on internal and external worlds.
- Examination of the problem of expressive completeness in language.
Main Results:
- The problems of world-construction and self-locating beliefs are shown to be equivalent.
- Both problems arise from the joint underdetermination of the internal-external relation by experience and objective facts.
Conclusions:
- The equivalence of these philosophical problems highlights a fundamental issue in understanding the mind-world connection.
- Expressive completeness, in terms of internal language or non-indexical language, is central to resolving these underdetermined relations.
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