What is the myth of the given?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03258-6
Abstract: The idea of ‘the given’ and its alleged problematic status as most famously articulated by Sellars (1956, 1981) continues to be at the center of heated controversies about foundationalism in epistemology, about ‘conceptualism’ and nonconceptual… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; myth given;
Rethinking Sellars’ Myth of the Given: From the Epistemological to the Modal Relevance of Givenness in Kant and Hegel
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DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2019.1611079
Abstract: ABSTRACT Here, I pursue consequences, for the interpretation of Sellars’ critique of the ‘Myth of the Given’, of separating the modal significance that Kant attributed to empirical intuition from the epistemological role it also played… read more here.
Keywords: kant; hegel; given epistemological; myth given ... See more keywords