The next Doc'in Nicod will welcome Santiago Echeverri (doc. with Jérôme Dokic, IJN). It will be held on the 16th of April, exceptionnally from 6 to 7.30 pm in the usual room (basement, Pavillon Jardin)
"The myth of the Conceptually Given"
In this talk i will examine the role of normativity in the conceptualist theories of perceptual experience, and particularly the importance given to two criticisms made by Sellars against "the Myth of the Given": first, the idea that the non-conceptualists are unable to grant any epistemic responsibility to the subject of perception, second, the claim that NC theories are disguised forms of the naturalist sophism. My aim here is to answer these two criticisms, by advocating for the two following theses : first, the conceptualist hypothesis is not yet sufficient to escape from the "Myth of the Given" fallacy as some of the strongest versions of conceptualism lead to a "Myth of the Given"; second, the conceptualist hypothesis is not necessary to escape from the "Myth of the Given" as it is possible to be a non-conceptualist about perceptual experience and to preserve normativity.
