ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the epistemological consequences of John McDowell’s approach to the relation of mind and world, which centres on an account of experience but embraces reasons more broadly. The fact that criticizes an “internal” view, in the sense of merely “interiorized” reasons, but advocates a view which, by contrast with most forms of externalism, connects knowledge to reasons available to a subject and hence is sometimes also called an “internalist” view can present some terminological confusions and difficulties. The idea of criteria in a number of different contexts, but the context that has been most influential is that of grounding knowledge of other minds. The experience can be openness to the world and can thus be experience of the facts. The knowledge depends on a theory that explains the tracks by postulating particles as their underlying causes. So knowledge of minds is supposed to depend on a theoretically mediated inference from behaviour.
