Article: Gaskin, Richard. Experience and the World's Own Language. A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism.(Book review)

GASKIN, Richard. Experience and the World's Own Language. A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. xii + 251 pp. Cloth, $74.00--In this book, Richard Gaskin reviews the wide-ranging and influential work of John McDowell. The first chapter discusses what is called McDowell's minimal empiricism: the idea that the world causally impresses itself on perceiving subjects and that the possession of perceptual experiences is a necessary condition for having concepts. In addition to a causal relation, McDowell posits a rational, or normative, relation between mind and world, since empirical judgments can be, and should be, evaluated for their ...

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