In his book, "Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge" (2011), John McDowell advocates that the warranty provided by perception is infallible. For such, it is necessary understanding the role reason plays for the constitution of genuine perceptual states. Through reason, we situate these states on the logical space of reasoning. So, we not only make of the perceptual state into an episode of knowledge, but we also acquire knowledge of how we arrived to that knowledge. McDowell argues that this condition for knowledge - the possession of the capacity to situate a perceptual state in the logical space of reasoning - does not compromise him with intellectualism. In this paper, I defend that McDowell's internalism is not entirely exempt from intellectualism, and that internalism is more reasonable not only without intellectualism, but also without reflexivity.
Internalism; perceptive knowledge; intellectualism; the myth of the given; John McDowell