PHI 3398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inner Experience, False Dilemma, Behaviorism
4 Dec 2013
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2 of mind & world: section 6: a dilemma concerning inner sense. Mcdowell and common sense: no independence here. Ontology of the object of experience: private objects. We have to negate: inner experience is dependent on the awareness of an inner given". First way: deny that it"s a matter of awareness. Second way: deny that there is a dependence link. Inner experience would not be awareness of something in the head". Inner experience would be independent from what it"s about. On the one side experience, on the other side its object. Mcdowell: this is a very difficult area (p. 22) Source of the dilemma: inner experience is dependent on the awareness of an inner. Mcdowell: we just have to deny that it"s a non-conceptual given. I am in pain" and the conceptual background. The independence of the circumstance: sections 7 & 8. Section 8: anthropocentrism and the end of inquiry.
