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Experience and the World's Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism

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Experience and the World's Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism - Gaskin, Richard
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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, arguing that it has unacceptable consequences, and in particular that it mistakenly rules out something we all know to be the case: that infants and non-human animals experience a world. Gaskin traces the errors in McDowell's empiricism to their source, and presents his own, still more minimal, version of empiricism, suggesting that a ...

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Experience and the World's Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism 2006, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199287253

Hardcover