Kern, the Two-Capacity View, and Paradigmatic Exercises of Rationality

 In this response piece, I criticize Andrea Kern’s argument against a version of what she calls the Two-Capacity View (TCV). TCV is the view that generally, perception is a capacity that enables subjects to gain perceptual knowledge, and that this capacity involves two sub-capacities: one for perception and one for judgment. In this piece, I provide reasons to doubt the second step of her three-step argument and show a way in which defenders of TCV can resist its third step, while rejecting Kern’s notion of what we should take paradigmatic exercises of reason to be.