The Introspective, Perceptual, and Spontaneous Response Models of Wang Yangming’s Philosophy
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This essay presents and evaluates Harvey Lederman’s Introspective Model as an interpretation of Wang Yangming’s philosophy. According to the Introspective Model, one achieves genuine knowing when pure knowing assays one’s occurrent thoughts and discovers that there are no doxastic conflicts among them. Lederman compares the Introspective Model to what he calls the Perceptual Model and argues for the superiority of the former over the latter as an interpretation of Wang’s philosophy. I argue that neither the Introspective nor the Perceptual Model offers a plausible account of Wang’s philosophy; both go awry by construing Wang’s thought as primarily concerned with epistemology while largely ignoring its metaphysical and moral dimensions and historical context. I provide a sketch of an alternative, the Spontaneous Response Model, and argue that it avoids the shortcomings of the other two models and enables one to understand Wang’s philosophy in a more comprehensive and systematic way that sees it as intimately related to the philosophical debates of its time. I also show the virtue of this alternative model as a basis for translating Wang’s writings, which of course is itself an act of interpretation.
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This essay presents and evaluates Harvey Lederman’s Introspective Model as an interpretation of Wang Yangming’s philosophy. According to the Introspective Model, one achieves genuine knowing when pure knowing assays one’s occurrent thoughts and discovers that there are no doxastic conflicts among them. Lederman compares the Introspective Model to what he calls the Perceptual Model and argues for the superiority of the former over the latter as an interpretation of Wang’s philosophy. I argue that neither the Introspective nor the Perceptual Model offers a plausible account of Wang’s philosophy; both go awry by construing Wang’s thought as primarily concerned with epistemology while largely ignoring its metaphysical and moral dimensions and historical context. I provide a sketch of an alternative, the Spontaneous Response Model, and argue that it avoids the shortcomings of the other two models and enables one to understand Wang’s philosophy in a more comprehensive and systematic way that sees it as intimately related to the philosophical debates of its time. I also show the virtue of this alternative model as a basis for translating Wang’s writings, which of course is itself an act of interpretation.
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