Empiricism, Cognitive Science, and the Novel

Sellars' famous attack on the Myth of the Given, the idea that raw experience gives us knowledge without concepts. One of the most influential essays of twentieth-century philosophy.

Wilfrid Sellars

A full doctoral thesis on what perceptual experience is and how it gives us contact with the world. Deep, rigorous reading for philosophy of perception.

Sebastián Ignacio Sanhueza Rodríguez

Can seeing something give you knowledge of it all by itself? This paper explores how perceptual experience justifies what we believe about the world.

Johannes Roessler

Does experience only tell us what to believe, or also how strongly? This paper tests the idea that perception directly sets our degrees of confidence.

Thomas Raleigh and Filippo Vindrola

Explores whether what we perceive is shaped by concepts or reaches us before them. A short, clear entry into the debate on non-conceptual content.

Uriah Kriegel