Taking up the debate on nonconceptual content, I argue that while metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind look to support the existence of content which is free from conceptualization, epistemological and phenomenological issues point the other direction. I argue that inasmuch as we are concerned to characterize the contents of experience as a robust interplay between perception, thought, and action, experiential content is conceptual insofar as its intentional objects are conceptually-laden empirical facts.Of course, the fact that were I to hit that pebble (and in the context of my already having grasped the fact) I would hit ... the best answer would be something like a Because of the pebble that would have put me on the ground had I not done so.
Title | : | Concepts in Experience: An Essay on Conceptualism |
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Publisher | : | ProQuest - 2007 |
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