John McDowell (eBook)

Experience, Norm, and Nature

Jakob Lindgaard (Autor)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0674-3 (ISBN)

Infos

John McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature combines
original essays by leading contemporary philosophers with point by
point responses by McDowell himself to explore the central themes
of one of the most innovative philosophers of our day.

* Provides original and critical essays examining
McDowell's reading and appropriation of Sellars, Kant, and
Hegel in his own philosophy

* Explores McDowell's notions of perceptual experience and
his proposed rethinking of our conception of nature in light of the
challenges that reason and normativity introduce

* Includes an original essay by McDowell that includes
significant developments of his conception of perceptual
experience

* Offers thorough and penetrating responses by McDowell to his
critics

Autor

Jakob Lindgaard received a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick. He has a BA and MA from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, and has been a 'visiting scholar' at the University of Pittsburgh both in 2000 and 2004.

Inhalt

Introduction.

1. Avoiding the Myth of the Given (John McDowell, University of
Pittsburgh).

2. Perception and Content (Bill Brewer, University of
Warwick).

3. McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions (Willem A. deVries,
University of New Hampshire).

4. Three Sorts of Naturalism (Hans Fink, University of
Aarhus).

5. Varieties of Nature in Hegel and McDowell (Christoph Halbig,
University of Jena).

6. Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell (Stephen
Houlgate, University of Warwick).

7. Practical Reason and its Animal Precursors (Sabina Lovibond,
Worcester College, Oxford University).

8. Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowell (Kenneth R.
Westphal, University of East Anglia).

9. Science and Sensibility: McDowell and Sellars on Perceptual
Experience (Michael Williams, John Hopkins University).

10. Reason's Reach (Charles Travis, King's College
London).

11. Responses (John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh).

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Critical theory • Kritische Theorie • Philosophical Logic • Philosophie • Philosophische Logik • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0674-X / 144430674X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0674-3 / 9781444306743