McDowell’s proposal that a standing in the space of reasons is not, after all, independent of worldly favours.įor the moment I will not consider the first two positions.
The resources of reason, construed as not requiring that the world does one a favour, are insufficient to guarantee knowledge.Īn implausible optimism that there are methods of basing beliefs about the world on mere appearances which are risk free.Ī hybrid picture which combines an interiorized conception of justification with an additional external condition: truth.įull blown externalist reliabilism which rejects McDowell’s Sellarsian assumption that knowledge has to do with reasons. This is the normal conclusion of the argument from illusion. In total McDowell outlines five responses to the problem raised by the argument from illusion. On this approach possession of good reasons can be ensured by a putatively knowing subject but only at the cost of severing the connection between those reasons and the world. Similarly in this more general context, McDowell rejects the idea that withdraws good reasons back from the world in this case as far as the subject’s experiences. On the mistaken view, the subject can ensure that the criteria are satisfied but only, according to McDowell, at the risk of making the actual obtaining of other minds an accidental extra.
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Schematically, he rejects the view that construes the criteria for other minds as withdrawn from embracing those other minds (or more precisely their expression) and back in the direction of the putatively knowing subject as far as the skin of the other person. But McDowell’s suggested solution is similar.
The problem discussed in ‘Knowledge and the internal’ is more general than the problem of other minds discussed in the previous section.
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