Internalist Foundationalism and the Sellarsian Dilemma

Hasan, Ali

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“…Sellars's dilemma can be given a formulation slightly different from the foregoing (see, e.g., Hasan, 2013). In this version, whatever the alleged foundation may be, it is either (i) propositional, in which case it needs a justification, or (ii) nonpropositional, in which case it cannot provide justification for anything else.…”

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Dispensing with experiential acquaintance

Robinson

2022

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Experiential acquaintance is an alleged relation between ourselves and our experiences that has sometimes been hypothesized as necessary for knowledge of our experiences. This paper begins with a clarification of 'acquaintance' and an explanation of 'experience' that focuses attention on a famous, but flawed, argument by G. E. Moore. It goes on to critically examine several recent arguments concerning experiential acquaintance and to show how internalist foundationalism can respond to a famous Sellarsian dilemma without appeal to a relation of acquaintance with our experiences. It concludes that we can dispense with experiential acquaintance.

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Dispensing with experiential acquaintance

Robinson

2022

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“…Contemporary acquaintance theorists—i.e., those who appeal to the philosophical notion of acquaintance in a substantial and positive way—include Balog (2012, 2019), Bigelow and Pargetter (1990, 2006), BonJour (2001, 2003a), Brewer (2004, 2011, 2019), Campbell (2002, 2009), Chalmers (1996, 2003, 2007, 2010), Coleman (2019), DePoe (2011, 2012, 2018), Dickie (2010), Dickinson (2019), Duncan (2015, 2017, 2018a, 2018b, 2020, forthcoming), Fales (1996), Fish (2009), Fumerton (1995, 2001, 2005, 2019), Gertler (2001, 2011, 2012), Giustina (forthcoming), Goff (2015), Graham and Horgan (2000), Hasan (2011, 2013a, 2013b), Hellie (2007, 2010), Howell (2013), Levine (2006, 2008, 2010, 2019a, 2019b), Lund (1994, 2005, 2014), McDowell (1986), McGinn (1996, 2008), McGrew (1995, 1999), Moser (1989, 2009), Nida‐Rümelin (1995, 1998, 2007), Pautz (2007, 2017), Pitt (2004, …”

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“…25 25 Acquaintance theorists who defend some version of foundationalism include Bonjour (2001, 2003a), Chalmers (2003, 2010), Duncan (2018b), Fales (1996), Feldman (2004), Fumerton (1995, 2001, 2019), Gertler (2012), Hasan (2011, 2013a, 2013b), Horgan and Kriegel (2007), Langsam (2002, 2011), McGrew (1995, 1999), Moser (1989), Stoutenburg (forthcoming), and Taylor (2015). …”

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“…For some acquaintance theorists' responses to Sellars' Dilemma, see BonJour (2003a), Chalmers (2010, Ch. 4), Fumerton (1995, p. 75), Hasan (2013b), Moser (1989), and Pryor (2005).…”

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“…15 15 Acquaintance theorists about self‐knowledge include Balog (2012, 2019), BonJour (2001, 2003a), Chalmers (1996, 2003, 2007, 2010), Coleman (2019), Duncan (2015, 2017, 2018a, 2018b, 2020, forthcoming), Fales (1996), Fumerton (1995, 2001, 2019), Gertler (2001, 2011, 2012), Giustina (forthcoming), Goff (2015), Hasan (2011, 2013a, 2013b), Howell (2013), Levine (2006, 2008, 2010, 2019a, 2019b), McGrew (1995, 1999), Moser (1989, 2009), Nida‐Rümelin (1995, 1998, 2007), Pitt (2004, 2011), Stoutenburg (forthcoming), Strawson (2009, 2017), Taylor (2015), and Wishon (2012, 2018). …”

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Acquaintance

Duncan

2021

Philosophy Compass

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To be acquainted with something (in the philosophical sense of "acquainted" discussed here) is to be directly aware of it. The idea that we are acquainted with certain things we experience has been discussed throughout the history of Western Philosophy, but in the early 20th century it gained especially focused attention among analytic philosophers who drew their inspiration from Bertrand Russell's work on acquaintance. Since then, many philosophers-particularly those working on self-knowledge or perception-have used the notion of acquaintance to explain various facts about human experience and knowledge. In this paper, I offer an overview of this work, with particular focus on the resurgent literature on acquaintance in contemporary analytic philosophy. After more fully explaining what acquaintance is (or is supposed to be), I describe some reasons for thinking that we are indeed acquainted with certain things we experience, and then I survey some of the facts about experience and knowledge that acquaintance may help explain. 1 | INTRODUCTION This paper is about acquaintance-an especially direct mental relation that we (allegedly) bear to certain things we experience, such as colors, smells, tastes, pains, and itches. This philosophical notion has received renewed interest and use of late, but it has also invited misunderstanding and skepticism. My aim in this paper is to dispel some of that misunderstanding and, hopefully, some of the skepticism too. Most contemporary philosophers who appeal to acquaintance draw their inspiration from Bertrand Russell (1911, 1912), who characterizes acquaintance as direct awareness. This differs from the ordinary sense of "acquaintance," as in "Hector and Paula are acquaintances" (or related knowledge attributions, such as "Hector knows Paula"). For one may be acquainted with something in that sense without being directly aware of it.

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Internalist Foundationalism and the Sellarsian Dilemma

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