Revista Filosofía UIS

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2023): January - June
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Internal Realism and Semantic Externalism: «Twin Earth» and «The Brain in The Vat» Arguments

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Luis Francisco Estrada Pérez
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revfil.v22n1-2023005

Published 2023-01-02

Keywords

  • external realism,
  • semantic externalism,
  • self-ascriptive statements,
  • uses of language,
  • twin earth,
  • brain in a vat
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Estrada Pérez, L. F. (2023). Internal Realism and Semantic Externalism: «Twin Earth» and «The Brain in The Vat» Arguments. Revista Filosofía UIS, 22(1), 93–115. https://doi.org/10.18273/revfil.v22n1-2023005

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Abstract

This article aims to analyze two doctrines that remain intertwined in Hilary Putnam's philosophy, namely, internal realism and semantic externalism in light of two presuppositions of the “Twin Earth” and "Brains in a vat” arguments: self-ascriptive statements and the use of language. It affirms that satisfactory adoption of both positions in Putnam´s program is evidenced and that an exhaustive analysis allows a more precise weighting of the author's scope and approaches. The conclusion reached is that, although there is compatibility between semantic externalism and internal realism in both arguments, however, the ontological and epistemic status of the representational language of those who are in the hypothetical state of those kind of puzzles is ambiguous.

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