Open Peer Commentary Millikan, R. G.: A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds: More Mama, more milk, and more mouse
Staying in touch: Externalism needs descriptions
James A. Hampton a1 a1 Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
j.a.hampton@city.ac.uk
Abstract
Externalism cannot work as a theory of concepts without
explaining how we reidentify substances as being of the same kind.
Yet this process implies just the level of descriptive content to
which externalism seeks to deny a role in conceptual
content.