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The modified predicate theory of proper names
- Sarah Sawyer
- Computer Science
- 2010
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Conceptual Errors and Social Externalism
- Sarah Sawyer
- Sociology
- 1 April 2003
Asa Maria Wikforss has proposed a response to Burge's thought experiments in favour of social externalism, one which allows the individualist to maintain that narrow content is truth?conditional… Expand
In Defence of Burge's Thesis
- Sarah Sawyer
- Philosophy
- 2002
Burge's thesis is the thesis that certain second-order self-ascriptionsare self-verifying in virtue of their self-referential form. The thesis hasrecently come under attack on the grounds that it… Expand
The importance of concepts
- Sarah Sawyer
- Sociology, Mathematics
- 1 July 2018
Words change meaning over time. Some meaning shift is accompanied by a corresponding change in subject matter; some meaning shift is not. In this paper I argue that an account of linguistic meaning… Expand
Cognitivism: A New Theory of Singular Thought?
- Sarah Sawyer
- Psychology
- 1 June 2012
In a series of recent articles, Robin Jeshion has developed a theory of singular thought which she calls ‘cognitivism’. According to Jeshion, cognitivism offers a middle path between acquaintance… Expand
The Epistemological Argument for Content Externalism
- B. Majors, Sarah Sawyer
- Philosophy
- 1 December 2005
New Waves in Philosophy of Language
- Sarah Sawyer
- Computer Science
- 2010
Series Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction S.Sawyer Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism J.Akerman & P.Greenough Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence E.Borg Naturalism in… Expand
Sufficient Absences
Externalism about psychological kinds is the thesis that certain of a subject's mental states and events are dependent for their individuation on the subject's environment. The thesis opens up the… Expand
Contrastive Self-knowledge
- Sarah Sawyer
- Psychology
- 3 April 2014
In this article, I draw on a recent account of perceptual knowledge according to which knowledge is contrastive. I extend the contrastive account of perceptual knowledge to yield a contrastive… Expand
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