BE(ING) HERE NOW NOTES TOWARDS AN INDEXICALIST EPISTEMOLOGY1

Jon Cogburn

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Abstract

I model the version of Wilfrid Sellars' Myth of the Given argument that John McDowell presents in Mind and World along the lines of one of Graham Priest's inclosure paradoxes, with McDowell's "spinning of the wheels" worry being a worry about denial of Transcendence and his "exculpation not justification" worry being a worry about denial of Closure. This exercise reveals much, importantly: (1) McDowell's conceptualism does not in fact, resolve the paradox, and (2) on the other hand, with insights from Graham Harman, Hilan Bensusan, and the Rinzai tradition of Zen Buddhism, a non-conceptualist, indexicalist, epistemology can.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Cosmos and History

First Page

45

Last Page

65

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