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

John McDowell's 'minimal empiricism' is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism. The doctrine is undermined, he argues, by inadequacies in the way McDowell conceives what he...

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Critique of John McDowell's empiricism
1. Verfasser:
Gaskin, Richard
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
John McDowell's 'minimal empiricism' is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism. The doctrine is undermined, he argues, by inadequacies in the way McDowell conceives what he styles the 'order of justification' connecting world, experience, and judgement. McDowell>'s conception of the roles played by causation and nature in this order is threatened with vacuity; andthe requirements of self-consciousness and verbal articulacy which he places on subjects participating in the justificator
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1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.
ISBN:
1-281-15448-2
9786611154486
0-19-153693-8
1-4356-2290-1
Schlagworte:
McDowell, John, > 1942-.
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