Description |
1 online resource (x, 251 pages) |
Contents |
Minimal empiricism and the 'order of justification' -- Minimal empiricism : introductory -- Minimal empiricism : some initial difficulties -- McDowell's empiricism : overview and prospective -- The simple model of empirical content -- The 'order of justification' -- From the complex to the simple model of empirical content -- Experience and causation -- Causation and the complex model of empirical content -- The threat of Anomalous Monism -- Causation in the space of reasons -- Nature and supernature -- Rampant and naturalized platonisms -- Realm-o-flaw causation and the myth of the given -- Experience and judgement -- McDowell's transcendental argument -- Judgement and freedom -- Knowledge and the opportunity to know -- Knowledge and infallibility -- Ayer on perceptual error -- Experience and self-consciousness -- The 'highest common factor' conception of experience -- McDowell's individualism -- Externalism and the individual -- Externalism and the 'order of justification' -- The mental lives of infants and animals -- Two species of mentality -- Mentality and the transcendental argument -- Objections to McDowell's account -- Conceptual consciousness and the Private Language Argument -- Not a something, but not a nothing either -- Feeling pain and feeling a pain -- Mentality and conceptual sophistication -- Two species of mentality revisited -- Mentality and propositional content -- Diagnosis and treatment -- The ailment : Kantian transcendental idealism -- Sense, reference, and concepts -- Propositions and states of affairs -- Concepts and nominalism -- Wittgenstein and ultra-realism -- Ultrarealism and universals -- The world's own language -- Combining objects and concepts at the level of reference -- Locating propositions at the level of reference -- The problem of falsity -- Truth and intrinsicism -- Der Mensch spricht nicht allein -- Epilogue : the unity of the proposition |
Summary |
Gaskin argues that John McDowell's attempt to revive the doctrine of empiricism in a 'minimal' or 'transcendental' form is seriously undermined by inadequacies in the way he conceives what he styles the 'order of justification' connecting world, experience, and judgement |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
McDowell, John, 1942-
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SUBJECT |
McDowell, John, 1942- fast |
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Empiricism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Empiricism
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Empirisme.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Oxford University Press
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ISBN |
0199287252 |
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9780199287253 |
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9781435622906 |
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1435622901 |
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9780191603969 |
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0191603961 |
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