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Open access Aug 2026

The Intimate Harmony Between the Intellect and Sensibility: McDowell and Perceptual Learning

This paper argues for a shift in the debate surrounding McDowell's conceptualism: from contents to capacities. This shift is important because the conceptual nature of a capacity is revealed in the way the capacity figures in the life of the animal, in particular in how the animal acquires and sustains the capacity. Mo...

D. Nagase · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Quine and language as a social art: projection, harmony, and the illusion of shared linguistic standards

Quine is generally taken to be a paradigmatic defender of the idea that language is a shared public resource, learned by internalizing shared standards. I argue that this misreads him. The correct Quinean picture is what I call the Projection Thesis: our linguistic practices result from the projection of individual org...

D. Nagase · 0 citations

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