4 papers in the library · 26 citations · publishing 2011-2017
Philosophical Perspectives December 1, 2017 Anil Gomes 9 citations
What method should we use to determine the nature of perceptual experience?My focus here is the Kantian thought that transcendental arguments can be used to determine the nature of perceptual experience.I set out a dilemma for the use of transcendental arguments in the philosophy of perception, one which turns on a comparison of the transcendental method with the first-personal method of early...
Oxford Scholarship Online July 20, 2017 Anil Gomes
This chapter provides a background to the essays in Kant and the Philosophy of Mind. In the first part of the chapter, some of the issues in the philosophy of mind which are addressed in Kant’s Critical writings are summarised. The second part charts some of the ways in which that discussion influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy of mind, with particular focus on the way in which...
European Journal of Philosophy December 1, 2016 Anil Gomes
AbstractIn the section ‘Unity and Objectivity’ ofThe Bounds of Sense, P. F. Strawson argues for the thesis that unity of consciousness requires experience of an objective world. My aim in this essay is to evaluate this claim. In the first and second parts of the essay, I explicate Strawson's thesis, reconstruct his argument, and identify the point at which the argument fails. Strawson's...
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society October 1, 2011 Anil Gomes 17 citations
Scepticism is sometimes expressed about whether there is any interesting problem of other minds. In this paper I set out a version of the conceptual problem of other minds which turns on the way in which mental occurrences are presented to the subject and situate it in relation to debates about our knowledge of other people's mental lives. The result is a distinctive problem in the philosophy...