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John McDowell Part 2: Squinting to Get a Glimpse of the Real World
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In this second episode of a 3 part series on the work of John McDowell, I look at McDowell’s epistemic distinction between the active and the passive. When we perceive the world, are we soaking up empirical data like a dull sponge or actively sorting fuzzy, impressionistic content into familiar categories? For McDowell, perceptions are conceptual through and through. Despite this, we can make sense of the idea of the contributions of our conceptual apparatus in coloring our perceptions even if we can’t sharply cleave the boundaries. We even get reminders of the unconceptualized world behind our experiences when we make perceptual mistakes or have some sort of perceptual confusion. Squinting, for example, reminds us when we struggle to make our concepts fit the world that opens itself up to us. All that, and McDowell’s answer to the skeptic and his transcendental argument for realism. P.S.: for some reason, when I say ‘veridical’, it sounds like vertical and it looks like I’m not going to solve it any time soon, so please allow your ears to make the appropriate adjustments.
61 episoder
Manage episode 353741896 series 2778461
In this second episode of a 3 part series on the work of John McDowell, I look at McDowell’s epistemic distinction between the active and the passive. When we perceive the world, are we soaking up empirical data like a dull sponge or actively sorting fuzzy, impressionistic content into familiar categories? For McDowell, perceptions are conceptual through and through. Despite this, we can make sense of the idea of the contributions of our conceptual apparatus in coloring our perceptions even if we can’t sharply cleave the boundaries. We even get reminders of the unconceptualized world behind our experiences when we make perceptual mistakes or have some sort of perceptual confusion. Squinting, for example, reminds us when we struggle to make our concepts fit the world that opens itself up to us. All that, and McDowell’s answer to the skeptic and his transcendental argument for realism. P.S.: for some reason, when I say ‘veridical’, it sounds like vertical and it looks like I’m not going to solve it any time soon, so please allow your ears to make the appropriate adjustments.
61 episoder
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