This text gives some introductory considerations on the argument of externalism in context of the current philosophical debate. It is not a summary, a faithful image or the history of externalism, but a presentation starting from a certain angle, outlining a precarious scenery where the problem of subjectivity (and the themes associated therewith, such as knowledge and rationality) leads to the question of what the relationship is between on the one hand the mind and its content and on the other hand the physical-social-linguistic world surrounding it.
Burge; Mental Content; Externalism; Individualism; Putnam