In his book Elements of mind Tim Crane has developed some resources in order to answer the Twin Earth mental experiment, invented by Hilary Putnam. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that Crane’s strategy is ineffective because he misunderstands that argument. We intend to examine in detail the reconstruction of the argument that Crane offers to detect its problems. A tighter version of it is also proposed, more consistent with Putnam intentions.

ResumenEl propósito de este artículo es defender que el externismo social de Burge puede enfrentarse con éxito al trilema de Bilgrami, un argumento que pretende mostrar la incompatibilidad entre el externismo ortodoxo, dentro del cual figura el externismo de Burge, y el acceso privilegiado a los propios contenidos mentales. Además, pretendemos poner de manifiesto la existencia de ciertas tensiones en la versión del externismo defendida por Bilgrami.Palabras claveAtribuciones conceptuales, contenido psicológico, internismo, externismoAbstractThe aim of this paper is to defend that (...) Burge’s social externalism can successfully face Bilgrami’s trilemma, an argument that intends to show the incompatibility between orthodox externalism, in which Burge’s externalism is featured, and the privileged access to our own mental contents. In addition, we mean to demonstrate the existence of certain tensions in Bilgrami’s view of externalism.Keywords Conceptual atributions, psychological content, internalism, externalism. (shrink)