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Issue 27 (March 2011)
The Myth of the Given and the Grip of the Given
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Robert Hanna
Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
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Robert Hanna, The Myth of the Given and the Grip of the Given, Diametros 27 (March 2011)
In this paper I argue that the Sellarsian Myth of the Given does not apply to all
forms of Non-Conceptualism; that Kant is in fact a non-conceptualist of the
right-thinking kind and not a Conceptualist, as most Kant-interpreters think; and
that an intelligible and defensible Kantian Non-Conceptualism can be developed which
supports the thesis that true perceptual beliefs are non-inferentially justified and
also normatively funded by direct, embodied, intentional interactions with the
manifest world (a.k.a. the Grip of the Given).
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