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Intentionality :: The Status of Intentionality :: Meaning Holism

2.4a Naturalism and Intentionality [34]
2.4b Meaning Skepticism [92]
2.4c Rule-Following [69]
2.4d The Normativity of Content [42]
2.4e Meaning Holism [67]
2.4f The Explanatory Role of Content [47]
2.4g Intentional Objects [17]
2.4h Collective Intentionality [20]
2.4i Intentionality, Misc [115]

See also:

2.3e Conceptual Role Approaches

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Anthony, Louise (1993). Conceptual connection and the observation/ theory distinction. In Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Google)

Becker, K. (1998). On the perfectly general nature of instability in meaning holism. Journal of Philosophy 95 (12):635-640. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Berg, Jonathan (1993). Inferential roles, Quine, and mad holism. In Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Bezuidenhout, Anne L. (1993). The impossibility of punctate mental representations. In Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Google)

Bilgrami, Akeel (1998). Why holism is harmless and necessary. Philosophical Perspectives 12:105-126. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Block, Ned (1995). An argument for holism. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 95:151-70. (Cited by 11 | Google | Annotation)

Block, Ned (1993). Holism, hyper-analyticity and hyper-compositionality. Mind and Language 8 (1):1-26. (Cited by 28 | Google | More links)

Block, Ned (1998). Mental and semantic holism. In Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge. (Google | More links)

Brandl, Johannes L. (1993). Semantic holism is here to stay. In Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Brigandt, Ingo (2004). Holism, concept individuation, and conceptual change. In Proceedings 4th Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, Murcia, Spain. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Callaway, Howard G. (1992). Meaning holism and semantic realism. Dialectica 46 (1):41-59. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Castaneda, Hector-Neri (1989). Semantic holism without semantic socialism: Twin earths, thinking, language, bodies, and the world. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14:101-126. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Churchland, Paul M. (1998). Conceptual similarity across sensory and neural diversity: The fodor/lepore challenge answered. Journal Of Philosophy 95 (1):5-32. (Cited by 37 | Google | More links)

Cohen, Jonathan (1999). Holism: Some reasons for buyer's remorse. Analysis 59 (2):63-71. (Cited by 6 | Google | More links)

Cohen, Jonathan (1999). Holism, thought, and the fate of metaphysics: Counter-reply to Heal. Analysis 59 (2):79-85. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Cornwell, William (2002). Epistemological holism and semantic holism. In Perspectives on Coherentism. Aylmer, Québec: Éditions Du Scribe. (Google)

Cozzo, Cesare (2002). Does epistemological holism lead to meaning holism? Topoi 21 (1-2):25-45. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Devitt, Michael (1994). A critique of the case for semantic holism. Philosophical Perspectives 8:281-306. (Cited by 6 | Google)

Devitt, Michael (1993). Localism and analyticity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):641-646. (Cited by 5 | Google | More links)

Devitt, Michael (1994). Semantic localism: Who needs a principled basis? In Roberto Casati, B. Smith & Stephen L. White (eds.), Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences. Holder-Pichler-Tempsky. (Cited by 2 | Google)

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Fodor, Jerry A. & Lepore, Ernest (1999). All at sea in semantic space: Churchland on meaning similarity. Journal Of Philosophy 96 (8):381-403. (Cited by 13 | Google | More links)

Fodor, Jerry A. & LePore, Ernest (1992). Holism: A Shopper's Guide. Blackwell. (Cited by 341 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Fodor, Jerry A. & LePore, Ernest (1993). Precis of holism: A shopper's guide. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):637-682. (Google | Annotation)

Fodor, Jerry A. & LePore, Ernest (1993). Reply to Block and Boghossian. Mind and Language 8 (1):41-48. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Gauker, Christopher (1993). Holism without meaning: A critical review of Fodor and Lepore's holism: A shopper's guide. Philosophical Psychology 6 (4):441-49. (Google)

Harrell, M. (1996). Confirmation holism and semantic holism. Synthese 109 (1):63-101. (Google)

Heal, Jane (1994). Semantic holism: Still a good buy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 68:325-39. (Cited by 10 | Google | Annotation)

Heal, Jane (1999). Thoughts and holism: Reply to Cohen. Analysis 59 (2):71-78. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Jackman, Henry (online). Holism, context, and content. (Cited by 3 | Google)

Jackman, Henry (online). Holism, relevance, and thought content. (Cited by 1 | Google)

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LePore, Ernest & Fodor, Jerry A. (1993). Reply to critics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):673-682. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

Levine, Joseph M. (1993). Intentional chemistry. In Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Cited by 8 | Google)

Lormand, Eric (1996). How to be a meaning holist. Journal of Philosophy 93 (2):51-73. (Cited by 13 | Google | More links)

Ludwig, Kirk A. (1993). Is content holism incoherent? Grazer Philosophische Studien 46:173-195. (Cited by 1 | Google)

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Markic, Olga (1997). A localist network? In Dunja Jutronic (ed.), The Maribor Papers in Naturalized Semantics. Maribor. (Google)

McClamrock, Ron (1989). Holism without tears: Local and global effects in cognitive processing. Philosophy of Science 56 (June):258-74. (Cited by 4 | Google | More links)

McDermott, M. (2001). Quine's holism and functionalist holism. Mind 110 (440):977-1025. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

McLaughlin, Brian P. (1993). On punctate content and on conceptual role. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):653-660. (Cited by 7 | Google | More links)

Mercier, Adele (1993). Normativism and the mental: A problem of language individuation. Philosophical Studies 72 (1):71-88. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Miller, Alexander (2003). Does "belief holism" show that reductive dispositionalism about content could not be true? Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement 77 (77):73-90. (Google)

Miller, R. B. (1997). One bad and one not very good argument against holism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (2):234-40. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links | Annotation)

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Pacherie, Elisabeth (1994). Holophobia. Acta Analytica 12 (12):105-112. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Pagin, Peter (1997). Is compositionality compatible with holism? Mind and Language 12 (1):11-33. (Cited by 20 | Google | More links)

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Perry, John (1994). Fodor and Lepore on holism. Philosophical Studies 73 (2-3):123-58. (Cited by 7 | Google | Annotation)

Pessin, Andrew (1995). In defense of conceptual holism: Reply to Fodor and Lepore. Journal of Philosophical Research 20:269-280. (Google)

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Weir, Alan (1985). Against holism. Philosophical Quarterly 35 (July):225-244. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links)

Weitzman, Leora (1998). Is the possibility of massive error ruled out by semantic holism? Journal of Philosophical Research 23 (January):147-163. (Google)

Wright, Wayne (2002). Fodor's epistemic intuitions of analyticity. Sorites 14 (October):110-116. (Google | More links)

Yagisawa, Takashi (1993). The cost of meaning solipsism. In Jerry A. Fodor & Ernest LaPore (eds.), Holism: A Consumer Update. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Google)

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2.4c	Rule-Following [69]

2.4e	Meaning Holism [67]

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