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In this paper I investigate the fundamental claim of John McDowell's seminal work /Mind and World/"--that experience is conceptual at its most basic layer. While I am sympathetic with his project of revising a naturalistic conception of human perception I highlight certain areas of his thought that remain unclear by the terms of his project. In so doing I aim to provide a critical interpretation ... read moreof McDowell's work that focuses on the possibility of his accommodating a conception of perceptual experience that is theory-laden. Drawing on the historical-philosophical work of Thomas Kuhn and the existentialist phenomenology of Martin Heidegger I suggest a manner by which McDowell's theory of experience may incorporate theory-laden perception. What's more I analyze the surrealistic film work of Joseph Cornell using the aesthetic theoretical terms of Theodor Adorno and Heidegger's concept of mood to demonstrate a pre-reflective dimension of experience that is related to yet separate from conceptual thinking. "read less
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