ABSTRACT
Radical contextualism is an approach to a range of questions regarding truth, thought and language, and a case built in several fronts. Globally it amounts to a view of representation as it is pursued by thinkers such as, a view which is currently formulated by Travis around a particular reading of Frege. This chapter shows how the silence of the senses thesis flows from – or at least is dependent upon – a position regarding the subpersonal or personal distinction. The personal or subpersonal distinction was put forward by Dennett as regarding two ways of explaining human behavior and thinking of the mind. It contrasts the level of people, with the level of their brains, nervous systems and cognitive machinery. Burge's conception of the job of philosophy of perception is not acceptable either for McDowell or for Travis. For neither of them are the problems of philosophy of perception and the problems of cognitive science of perception to be identified.
