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The Nature of Narrow Content

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
philosophy/philosophy of language

Summary

Essay by Chalmers arguing that narrow content — content shared by duplicates — can be defined as the primary intension in two-dimensional semantics.

Core Contribution

Rehabilitates narrow content by grounding it in the primary intension of 2D semantics, reconciling internalist intuitions with externalist semantics.

Historical Influences

David Chalmers

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Allied Works

The Components of Content Constructing the World

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