Mcdowell, J

Mind & World

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ISBN 13:: 9780674576100
author:: Mcdowell, J
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Harvard University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 1996
Pages:: 224
Genre:: Philosophy of mind
Condition:: New
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John McDowell's Mind and World offers a diagnosis of the difficulty modern philosophy faces in giving a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. Based on his 1991 John Locke Lectures, this work presents McDowell's own views on the subject, providing a complete and ambitious statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.

The book explores the insidious persistence of dualism in modern philosophy, particularly in discussions of empirical thought. McDowell examines the challenges of articulating a rational grounding for experience and reveals pitfalls in attempts to do so. He also draws on the work of contemporary philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson to illustrate these difficulties.

McDowell proposes a new approach, one that returns to a pre-modern conception of nature while retaining the intellectual advances of modernity. This approach makes room for a satisfying understanding of experience as a rational openness to independent reality, overcoming obstacles that impede our generally satisfactory understanding of how we are placed in the world.

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