Essay 3 A. “Meaning just ain’t in the head” 1. Meaning is determined outside of the mind by experience, external factors, and surrounding. We do not give object properties; the properties are within the objects. The name that we use for an object is a word assigned to a certain set of properties it contains. a. Twin-Earth thought experiment: There is earth and twin earth. Everything on twin earth is a carbon copy of how it is here, except the chemical compound for water on Earth is H20 and on twin Earth is XYZ. Both think of water, but they are thinking of two different things (xyz and h20). Since both people are identical and utter the word at the same time (and are thinking of two diff substances as water), meaning cannot just be in the head. 2. Burge says that a language speaker’s thought contents are dependent on the conventional meanings of the words in her community. The intrinsic properties are the same but the beliefs are different (arthritis example). 3. It is generally conceived that Putnam's view is a version of physical externalism, which argues that factors in the physical environment play a role in determining the meanings of natural kind terms. Burge, on the other hand, is regarded as following up Putnam's argument to bring in factors in the social environment for the determination of belief. Burge's view has been commonly referred to as 'social externalism.' The general consensus in the field is that physical externalism and social externalism are compatible views.

Essay 5
1. Methodological behaviorism (skinner/Watson) vs. logical behaviorism (Ryle) a. According to Logical Behaviorism (Ryle, Carnap), the statement that Johnny believes that it will rain today is reducible to the statement that: “Johnny is disposed to behave as if it will rain today.” Thus ordinary folk-psychological explanations are eliminable in