PHI 3398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Coherentism, Cartesian Theater, Wods
4 Dec 2013
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Class 2 on lecture 1 of mind & world: section 5: the passivity of experience. The concepts deployed in experience are also deployed in spontaneity: Davidson: means we must leave out experience. We need more to account for the interntionality of empirical thought. About our beliefs are mostly true (interpretation)": Supposed to save us from skepticism, but does not work (p. 16-17: section 7 inner and outer sense, part i. This bare presence justifies i am in pain". Link with the myth of the given: interlude: wittgenstein on private language. Mcdowell and his friends argue that there are no bare non- conceptual data that are given in experience. No bare" presences upon which we apply concepts. Thanks to outer sense, we are aware of red things. But, sellars says, my sensation of red cannot justify that there is a red thing in front of me if that sensation is raw and not conceptual.
