Question
In an article about this concept, John McDowell attacked Robert Brandom’s claim that it undermines the role of experience in attaining knowledge. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept. The work that introduced this concept argued that “characterizing a state as that of knowing” is not “giving an empirical description,” but instead involves “placing it” in this hypothetical location where justifying is expected.
ANSWER: logical space of reasons
[10m] The “logical space of reasons” was introduced in this 1956 paper by Wilfrid Sellars, in which he introduced the “myth of the given” as part of a critique of sense-datum theories.
ANSWER: “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”
[10e] McDowell sees the “logical space of reasons” as a forerunner to the “constitutive ideal of rationality,” which was formulated by this thinker in “Mental Events,” a paper exploring “anomalous monism.”
ANSWER: Donald Davidson
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.67 | 80% | 53% | 13% |