104th PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Marie McGinn on Non-Inferential Knowledge
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
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McDowell's Account of Non-Inferential Knowledge
McDowell argues that fact exerts a rational influence on belief only by being experienced. He writes in his response to Jonathan Dancy, when one specifies the reason for which someone holds a perceptual belief, one cannot omit the person's experience and go straight to the fact experienced. The account is meant to show how even though he cannot prove he knows to a determined skeptic, someone who judges that pee can be in possession of an experiential warrant or justification for his belief.
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