ABSTRACT
Sebastian Rödl sees an unresolved and irresolvable tension between two fundamental commitments he finds motivating Making It Explicit: the conception of the mind as normative (of intentionality as an irreducibly normative phenomenon), and a “conception of philosophy as explaining mysterious phenomena”. The former is a Kantian idea, pursued both by Sellars and by Wittgenstein. The latter is, he says, “a legacy of the naturalist-empiricist tradition”. The first of these is clearly and explicitly avowed throughout the book. To attribute the allegiance to naturalism and empiricism, however, requires Rödl to read between the lines – indeed, I think, to misread between the lines.
