PHI 3398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pragmatism, Empiricism
4 Dec 2013
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2 of mind & world: section 2: stating the problem. The given and its conception of the constraint. In a particular experience in which one is not misled, what one takes in is that things are thus and so. That things are thus and so is the content of the experience, and it can also be the content of a judgment: it becomes the content of a judgment if the subject decides to take experience at face value. But that things are thus and so is also, if one is not misled, as anspect of the layout of the world: it is how things are. Thus the idea of conceptually structured operations of receptivity puts us in a position to speak of experience as openness to the layout of reality. Experience enables the layout of reality itself to exert a rational influence on what a subject thinks. mcdowell (p. 26) Different interpretations are possible: section 3: thinking and the thinkable.
