A New Case of the Myth of the Given?

DANIEL KALPOKAS

Theoria. Swedish Journal of Philosophy

Wiley-Blackwell

Año: 2022

1755-2567

For some years now, an increasing number of philosophers have been holding that what is given in perception are the physical objects of our surroundings. This is the view called, among others names, “the Relational View”. Basically, this view consists in the claim that experience is not representational, it is not a matter of the subject’s taking things in the world to be this or that way; rather, it is just a matter of being presented with things, of being in a certain kind of relation with them, which makes them available to us, nevertheless, to be represented in judgment or belief. The question arises, however, whether this does not imply a new fall into the Myth of the Given. In this article, I argue for an affirmative response to that question.