Quote from Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty-immediacy

"It is also a choice of natural science as the paradigm of rational inquiry, a Kantian choice which Hegel explicitly repudiates. When one switches from Kant to Hegel, the philosopher whom Sellars described as "the great foe of immediacy," these metaphors lose much of their appeal. So it is not surprising that it is among Anglophone philosophers, who read far more Kant than they do Hegel, that these metaphors should remain most prevalent. From a Sellarsian, Davidsonian, Brandomian, or Hegelian viewpoint, there is no clear need for what McDowell describes as 'a minimal empiricism': the idea that experience must constitute a tribunal, mediating the way our thinking is answerable to how things are, as it must be if we are to make sense of it as thinking at all. 4 For Sellars, Davidson, and Brandom, we are constantly interacting with things as well as with persons, and one of the ways in which we interact with both is through their effects upon our sensory organs. But none of these three philosophers need the notion of experience as a mediating tribunal. They can be content with an account of the world as exerting control on our inquiries in a merely causal way, rather than as exerting what McDowell calls "rational control." What McDowell says of Davidson is true of Sellars and Brandom as well: all three think "a merely causal, not rational, linkage between thinking and independent reality will do, as an interpretation of the idea that empirical content requires friction against something external to thinking." 5 That such an account will not do is the first, and largely unargued, premise of McDowell's book."

— Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty
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