Some Problems for \"Alternative Individualism\"

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wilson, Robert A.

• This paper points to some problems for the position that D.M. Walsh calls \"alternative individualism,\" and argues that in defending this view Walsh has omitted an important part of what separates individualists and externalists in psychology. Walsh's example of Hox gene complexes is discussed in detail to show why some sort of externalism about scientific taxonomy more generally is a more plausible view than any extant version of individualism.

• Date created

  2000

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Psychology
  • Genes
  • Intrinsic Properties
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • Relational Properties
  • Biological Taxonomies
  • Externalism
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Individualism

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R34X54X1J

• License

  © 2000 Philosophy of Science Association. All rights reserved.