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Narrow Mental Content
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Curtis Brown, Trinity University
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Article
Publication Date
6-30-2011
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Abstract

Narrow mental content is a kind of mental content that does not depend on an individual's environment. Narrow content contrasts with “broad” or “wide” content, which depends on features of the individual's environment as well as on features of the individual. It is controversial whether there is any such thing as narrow content. Assuming that there is, it is also controversial what sort of content it is, what its relation to ordinary or “broad” content is, and how it is determined by the individual's intrinsic properties.

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Stanford University
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Brown, C. (2011). Narrow mental content. In E. N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition). Retreived from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/content-narrow/