PHI 3398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Coherentism, Richard Rorty, Sense Data
4 Dec 2013
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Written with a background in sellars, davidson, and rorty. Seems to be the link between the world an ourselves. We want language, our beliefs, to be about the world and we can be sure that they are because of experience. (sense data, impressions, images, perceptual data). In a sense, the semester is all about intentionality. Concepts: the realm of language, of beliefs, of thoughts. The space of concepts. " they are something that we have. Reason and reasons: this is where justification happens. Space of reasons. " the game of giving and asking for reasons (brandom, sellars). Thanks to concepts we can play that game. That game brings the concepts of life, it"s wht makes them dynamic and not static. Freedom: the space of reasons is the space of freedom. We are free somehow to accept something as being thus-and-so. We have the freedom to reject certain experiences. The idea of the given: experience is a non-conceptual given.
