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On our alleged a priori knowledge that water exists

Analysis 63 (1):38-41 (2003)

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What the Externalist Can Know A Priori.Paul Boghossian - 1998 - Philosophical Issues 9:197-211.details Compatibilism combines an externalist view of mental content with a doctrine of privileged self‐knowledge. The essay presents a reductio of compatibilism by arguing that if compatibilism were true, we would be in a position to know certain facts about the world a priori, facts that no one can reasonably believe are knowable a priori. Whether this should be taken to cast doubt on externalism or privileged self‐knowledge is not discussed. Consideration is given to the ’empty case’—the case in which a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 79 citations
The incompatibility of anti-individualism and privileged access.Jessica Brown - 1995 - Analysis 55 (3):149-56.details In this paper, I defend McKinsey's argument (Analysis 1991) that Burge's antiindividualist position is incompatible with privileged access, viz. the claim that each subject can know his own thought contents just by reflection and without having undertaken an empirical investigation. I argue that Burge thinks that there are certain necessary conditions for a subject to have thoughts involving certain sorts of concepts; these conditions are appropriately different for thoughts involving natural kind concepts and thoughts involving non-natural kind concepts. I use (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 60 citations

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