McDowell's reading of Sellars shows that non-conceptual perceptual states can stand in rational relations to beliefs, granting them epistemic standing prior to full conceptualization.
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Wilfrid Sellars was an influential 20th-century American philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge, perception, and meaning. He argued that our scientific understanding of the world and our everyday experiences of it aren't separate things but need to be brought together into one coherent picture. His ideas, particularly about how language relates to reality and how we know things, continue to shape modern philosophy.
conceptualization(Barrett's Conceptual Act View)
The cognitive process of categorizing a core affective state under a specific emotion concept, which on Barrett's view is constitutive of having that emotion