Philosophy: Philosophy of Language: Meaning: Narrow Content

Essay and annotated bibliography by Alberto Voltolini, discussing a controversy in the theory of meaning between internal accounts of meaning, which hold that the content of a concept depends upon factors wholly present in the subject, whereas to the externalist they depend upon factors that may occur in the community or in the society beyond the subject.

Article by Jesse Prinz critical of Jerry Fodor's reasons for his rejection of narrow content.

Part two of six of an annotated bibliography on the philosophy of mind by David Chalmers.

Article by David Chalmers proposing an account of narrow content based upon a distinction between notional and relational content. Notional content allows us to describe the `subject-eye' view of the world, whilst relational content allows us to give observer independent analogues of notional content.