Is Content-Externalism Compatible with Privileged Access?

Externalist theories of thought content are sometimes arrived at by reflection upon null Earth thought experiments of the sort made famous by Hilary Putnam and Tyler Burge. The conclusion many philosophers draw from these thought experiments is that certain types of thought contents are individuated, in part, by environmental or socioenvironmental factors.' This doctrine of Twin Earth content-externalism implies that it is possible for thinkers...