Definition and Dispute A Defense of Temporal Externalism

Derek Ball, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Derek Ball is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His interests span a wide range of topics in philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and moral philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University and the University of Oslo.

1. IntroductionPart I: Conservatism about Practice and Meaning Sameness2. Verbal Dispute and Metalinguistic Negotiation3. Conceptual Engineering: Ambitious or Anodyne?4. Why Are Paradoxes Hard? On the Explanatory Inecacy of Inconsistent ConceptsPart II: Temporal Externalism5. Definition: What and When6. Stipulation Reconsidered: Temporal Externalism7. The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Backwards Deter- mination8. Contextualism, Relativism, and Metasemantics9. Temporal Externalism, Context Sensitivity, and Matters of Taste10. Temporal Externalism: Choice Points