Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine - The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures
Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine - The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures
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科学与感性 作者:W. V. Quine - 1980 年伊曼努尔·康德讲座
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10.1007/978-3-030-04909-6_10
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2019
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Janssen-Lauret F
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Janssen-Lauret F
Quine’s views on ontology and naturalism are well-known but rarely considered in tandem. According to my interpretation the connection between them is vital. I read Quine as a global epistemic structuralist. Quine thought we only ever know objectsquasolutions to puzzles about significant intersections in observations. Objects are always accessed descriptively, via their roles in our best theory. Quine’s Kant lectures contain an early version of epistemic structuralism with uncharacteristic remarks about the mental. Here Quine embraces mitigated anomalous monism, allowing introspection and the availability in principle of full physical descriptions of perceptual events. Later versions abandon these ideas. My epistemic-structural interpretation explains why. I argue first-person introspective access to mental states is incompatible with global epistemic structuralism.