... content empiricism Quine scheme‐content dualism Philosophers of many persuasions are prone to talk of conceptual schemes. Conceptual schemes, we are told, are ways of organizing experience; they are systems of categories that give form to the data of sensation; they are points of view from which...

... and empirical content” (or “scheme/content dualism”) nevertheless amount to arguments against Empirical Dualism. It then shows that the first half of Davidson’s argument against the very idea of a conceptual scheme fails. Next it shows that, for its second half to succeed, Davidson’s argument against the very...