The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays

John McDowell

Published by Harvard University Press 2013

The Engaged Intellect

Philosophical Essays

John McDowell

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674265943

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This book collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological.

Reviews

This volume showcases McDowell’s remarkable mastery of a wide range of philosophical subject matter, containing essays that treat Plato, Aristotle, Frege, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, P.F. Strawson, and many other philosophers. It ranges over philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology… He extends our conception of what might be possible and desirable in a naturalistic account of the mind. McDowell’s account promises a more authentic way of retaining our responsiveness to reasons than any other account on offer in contemporary philosophy.
-- John Hacker-Wright Metapsychology

As rich in ideas as philosophy today ever is. I know of no contemporary philosopher whose work repays as handsomely careful and repeated study, no philosopher more likely to shed original and yet fundamentally revealing light on a difficult subject, no philosopher whose ‘philosophical ear’ or ‘philosophical sense’ is more worthy of respect.
-- Tim Thornton The Philosophers’ Magazine

[These essays] provide the rare and instructive spectacle of a philosopher who is able to genuinely enrich our understanding of the history of philosophy while at the same time engaging in current philosophical problems and debates.
-- Courtney D. Fugate Philosophy in Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I Ancient Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II Issues in Wittgenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
III Issues in Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
IV Reference, Objectivity, and Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
V Themes from Mind and World Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
VI Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360

eBook

Published: September 2, 2013
ISBN: 9780674265943