signature=f411694d2cdb1852be1fd9690c0bbfcf,FOCUSED DISCUSSION PEER-REVIEWED Extended Thing Knowledge...

摘要：

The paper will be organized as follows. I first offer a brief discussion of Baird's `thing knowledge' thesis and comment on the need for a subjective account of such materialized knowledge. The following section will serve as a brief exposition of the hypothesis of extended cognition and will flesh out a common assumption that both the thing knowledge and the extended cognition theses share: they both endorse functionalism and the multiple realizability principle. I will then turn to a characterization of material beliefs and will offer an example of a use of material models that complies with a functional account of knowledge. It is important to bear in mind that I will not argue for either the thing knowledge or extended cognition theses. I do however hope that my view will support both theses and show that they should be included in the epistemologist's tool kit.

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