 McDowell’s perceptual account involves two crucial moves, one concerning our understanding of experience and the other concerning our understanding of behavior. He proposes that we think of our experience as being “open” to the world, allowing objects to figure in it directly; and in a parallel fashion he proposes that we think of behavior as giving expression to mental states thereby allowing them to figure in behavior (McDowell 1982, 1986). According to McDowell, when one has an experience of genuinely expressive behavior, one is not actually experiencing the mental state of the other; nonetheless, behavior in the veridical case should not be thought to fall short of mind in such a way as to allow for the possibility of its total absence. McDowell believes that this understanding of experience and behavior can support (sceptic-proof) knowledge of both the world and other minds.