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

by Richard Gaskin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199287252
• ISBN13: 9780199287253
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"