Conceptual Schemes
- Created by: Emily Wadeley
- Created on: 08-05-11 18:40
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A Posteriori Accounts
- Interests and values shape and direct our experience
Sapir-Whorf:
- Language and concept-formation
- Hopi Indians
Wittgenstein: seeing-as
Other Cultural examples:
- Gender
- Nudity
- Food
- Ethics
- Art and Convention
A Priori Accounts
Kant - Innate Synthetic a priori ideas
Chomsky - Innate generative grammar
A moral sense - Innate valence re behaviour
Physics - Innate common sense physics
Biology - Innate Perceptual apparatus
Kant:
Kant rejects Hume's simple and passive view of perception, along with its scepticism.
For Kant, there is no such thing as raw, uninterpreted experience.
Experience is always 'cooked'. To even qualify as experience, empirical data must first be…
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