Reading McDowell: On Mind and World

by Smith,Nicholas; Smith,Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780415212137
• ISBN10: 0415212138
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

John McDowell'sMind and Worldis widely acknowledged to be one of the most important contributions to philosophy in recent years. In this volume leading philosophers examine the nature and extent of McDowell's achievement inMind and Worldand related writings. The chapters, most of which were specially commissioned for this volume, are divided into five parts. The essays in part one considerMind and World's location in the modern philosophical tradition, particularly its relation to Kant's critical project. Parts two and three cover issues in epistemology and philosophy of mind, while in part four the focus turns to problems of rationality, realism and ethics. In the final part of the book McDowell responds to the contributors and further elaborates his own views. Together, the essays provide an indispensable resource for understanding McDowell's work and they offer a timely snapshot of the state of play in contemporary philosophy. Reading McDowellis animportant and critical contribution to the debates in analytic philosophy and will be a valuable resource for all those interested inMind and World, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
Nicholas H. Smith
PART I Philosophy after Kant	7	(70)
McDowell's domesticated Hegelianism	9	(16)
Richard J. Bernstein
Exorcising the philosophical tradition	25	(33)
Michael Friedman
Leaving nature behind: or two cheers for ``subjectivism''	58	(19)
Robert B. Pippin
PART II Epistemology	77	(44)
Sense-experience and the grounding of thought	79	(13)
Barry Stroud
Non-inferential knowledge, perceptual experience, and secondary qualities: placing McDowell's empiricism	92	(14)
Robert Brandom
Foundationalism and the inner-outer distinction	106	(15)
Charles Taylor
PART III Philosophy of mind	121	(70)
Phenomenological externalism	123	(17)
Gregory McCulloch
Human nature?	140	(34)
Crispin Wright
Postscript to chapter 8	160	(14)
Crispin Wright
McDowell's mind and McDowell's world	174	(17)
Hilary Putnam
PART IV Toward ethics	191	(76)
Attending to reasons	193	(16)
Charles Larmore
Bildung and second nature	209	(8)
Rudiger Bubner
Re-enchanting nature	217	(29)
J.M. Bernstein
Between hermeneutics and Hegelianism: John McDowell and the challenge of moral realism	246	(21)
Axel Honneth
PART V Responses	267	(39)
Responses	269	(37)
John McDowell
Index	306