ABSTRACT
Travis's “Affording Us the World” and McDowell's “Concepts in Perceptual Experience” are fascinating essays. Travis and McDowell are philosophers whose work I admire and have learned from (which does not mean there aren't any disagreements between us). In his essay, McDowell sees me as agreeing with Travis in a denial that “perceptual experiences have content,” but I would not put my view that way. And Travis claims that “(visual) awareness of one's spatial surroundings” is the same with me and with cats, and that “ways for things to be” aren't among the things that are “there to be seen,” and I have problems with both of those claims. So there is plenty for me to discuss in these papers.
