Publisher's Synopsis
This book is broadly concerned with the category of observational experience in philosophical thought and the influence of recent ?propositional linguistic? views on theories of mind and content. Kant is long credited with arguing that experience is importantly structured by epistemic categories and, generally, ?high-level? organisation. Taken together with the ?theory dependence of observation? thesis in the philosophy of science, this view has become something akin to dogma. The author argues that the stress on observational experience being ?inferential? theory dependent and crucially underpinned by linguistic and epistemic categories is misplaced, and that there is some sense in which experience is non-inferential and sensory in content.
