The Engaged Intellect
Philosophical Essays
Published on 2. September 2013
360 pages
978-0-674-26594-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Digital original
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English
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Cambridge, Mass
United States
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-26594-3 (9780674265943)
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Harvard University Press
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Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Part I. Ancient Philosophy Chapter 1. Falsehood and Not-Being in Plato's Sophist Chapter 2. Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle's Ethics Chapter 3. Deliberation and Moral Development in Aristotle's Ethics Chapter 4. Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle Part II. Issues in Wittgenstein Chapter 5. Are Meaning, Understanding, etc., Definite States? Chapter 6. How Not to Read Philosophical Investigations: Brandom's Wittgenstein Part III. Issues in Davidson Chapter 7. Scheme-Content Dualism and Empiricism Chapter 8. Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism Chapter 9. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective Part IV. Reference, Objectivity, and Knowledge Chapter 10. Evans's Frege Chapter 11. Referring to Oneself Chapter 12. Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity Chapter 13. The Disjunctive Conception of Experience as Material for a Transcendental Argument Part V. Themes from Mind and World Revisited Chapter 14. Experiencing the World Chapter 15. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind Part VI. Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus Chapter 16. Knowledge and the Internal Revisited Chapter 17. Motivating Inferentialism: Comments on Chapter 2 of Making It Explicit Chapter 18. What Myth? Chapter 19. Response to Dreyfus Bibliography Credits Index
