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(1992) Synthese 90 (1).

Psychophysical supervenience

its epistemological foundation

Joseph Owens

pp. 89-117

My primary goal in this paper is to focus attention on a certain conception of internal access, on the Cartesian conception that a rational subject's capacity to determine sameness and difference in explicit propositional attitudes is independent of knowledge of the external world. This conception of introspection plays a crucial, if unacknowledged, role in numerous arguments and theoretical positions. In particular, it plays a large role in motivating psychological internalism. I argue in favor of rejecting this epistemology and the internalism it supports.

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DOI: 10.1007/BF00485193

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Owens, J. (1992). Psychophysical supervenience: its epistemological foundation. Synthese 90 (1), pp. 89-117.

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