104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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The Reliability of Straight Off Observational Judgments
John McDowell argues that straight off observational judgments can be seen as rational responses to perceptual states which provide them with an indefeasible warrant. He claims the circumstances of a fact making itself manifest to a subject in experience provides the subject both with a reason to judge and the fact obtained. So what is judged amounts to a rationally grounded, justified judgment which is non-inferentially known to be the case.
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