Demonstrative Concepts Without Re-Identification |
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Authors: | Philippe Chuard |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy Program Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, H.C. Coombs Bldg, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia |
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Abstract: | Conceptualism in the philosophy of perception is the doctrine that perceptual experiences have a fully conceptualized content.
Conceptualists have laid particular emphasis on the role demonstrative concepts play in experience, in order to deal with
the objection that experiences are fine-grained. Normal perceivers, they point out, are able to form fine-grained demonstrative
color concepts for the specific shades they perceptually discriminate. Recently, however, Sean Kelly (2001b: ‘Demonstrative
concepts and Experience’, The Philosophical Review 110 (3), 397–420.) has argued that, in order to possess a particular demonstrative concept, a perceiver must be able to re-identify
things which fall under that concept. Since normal perceivers typically fail at such re-identification, he concludes, they
do not in fact possess demonstrative concepts for the specific shades of color they experience. In response to Kelly’s attempt
to resurrect the objection from the fineness of grain of experience, I argue that his defense of this Re-identification constraint
(i) is not as intuitive as it might seem, (ii) is ill-motivated, and (iii) appears to rest on a conflation between different
kinds of concepts. |
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