“…That is not Dretske's view 1 . For Dretske, “externalism” means that “external” circumstances—circumstances “out there” in your environment, beyond the fact that makes your belief true—matter to whether you know: Perceptual knowledge, if we have it, derives from the circumstances in which one comes to believe… (2003, p. 105). It is the fact that Russell's hypothesis is false…that enables one to remember what one had for breakfast.…”
“…That is not Dretske's view 1 . For Dretske, “externalism” means that “external” circumstances—circumstances “out there” in your environment, beyond the fact that makes your belief true—matter to whether you know: Perceptual knowledge, if we have it, derives from the circumstances in which one comes to believe… (2003, p. 105). It is the fact that Russell's hypothesis is false…that enables one to remember what one had for breakfast.…”
“…For my contributions to this topic, see Pritchard (2007 b ; 2008 a ; 2009 b ; 2009 c ; 2011 b ; 2011 c ; cf. Pritchard 2003) and Neta & Pritchard (2007). For some key discussions of McDowell's own view in this regard, see Glendinning & de Gaynesford (1998), Macarthur (2003), Wright (2002; 2008; cf.…”
“… 21 See McDowell 1982, 1995, 2005: 86. For a critical assessment of this view, see Pritchard 2003. I'll try to be more explicit on the relation of conceptualism to disjunctivism in section 7. …”
: In Mind and World, McDowell conceives of the content of perceptual experiences as conceptual. This picture is supposed to provide a therapy for skepticism, by showing that empirical thinking is objectively and normatively constrained. The paper offers a reconstruction of McDowell's view and shows that the therapy fails. This claim is based on three arguments: 1) the identity conception of truth he exploits is unable to sustain the idea that perception‐judgment transitions are normally truth conducing; 2) it could be plausible only from an externalist point of view that is in tension with the view of normativity that motivates conceptualism; 3) the identity conception of truth is incompatible with McDowell's recent version of conceptualism in terms of ‘non‐propositional intuitive contents’.
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