Experience and the world's own language : a critique of John McDowell's empiricism / Richard Gaskin.

Author/creator Gaskin, Richard, 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Descriptionx, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.
LCCN 2005025980
ISBN0199287252 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780199287253 (alk. paper)

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