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    The normativity of perception and the perception of normativity
    Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. 2021.
    Imagine holding a cone of mint chocolate chip ice cream on a hot day. As you eye the ice cream, you see that it’s melting. If you don’t act quickly, you’ll wind up with sticky hands. Now pause this scene and ask yourself, ‘What should I do?’ The answer seems obvious: you should lick the melting ice cream. To say why this answer seems so reasonable, we need to say something about the normativity of perception. Perception, after all, is what tells you that the ice cream is melting. But we might al…Read more