PHI 3398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ipso Facto
4 Dec 2013
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He uses evans" position to clarify his own. For evans, the content of perceptible experience is not conceptual. Conceptual content enters the picture in judgments based on experience. The system of capacities we exercise when we gather information about the world by using our senses (p. 48) Non conceptual content not identified ipso facto with experiential content. *animals only have states" of the informational system: section 3: inner experience and evans. But: also a problem for evans: content and the given in evans. Reminder: the myth of the given according to mcdowell is the thesis according t which receptivity makes a separate contribution from spontaneity with regards to experience. Evans: informational system furnishes the elements of receptivity. Independent contribution, even if strongly linked to spontaneity. Evans talks about experience as being contentful. But kant says: intuitions without concepts are blind.
