This paper collects some of John McDowell's papers, written at various times over the 1980s and 1990s. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgenstein's difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech.
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978-0-674-57613-1 (9780674576131)
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Part 1 Greek ethics: the role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's ethics; some issues in Aristotle's moral psychology; virtue and reason. Part 2 Reason, value and reality: are moral requirements hypothetical imperatives?; might there be external reasons?; aesthetic value, objectivity, and the fabric of the world; values and secondary qualities; projection and truth in ethics; two sorts of naturalism; non-cognitivism and rule-following. Part 3 Issues in Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein on following a rule; meaning and intentionality in Wittgenstein's later philosophy; one strand in the private language argument; intentionality and interiority in Wittgenstein. Part 4 Mind and self: functionalism and anomalous monism; the content of perceptual experience; reductionism and the first person.
