The engaged intellect : philosophical essays
by
 
McDowell, John, 1942-

Title
The engaged intellect : philosophical essays

Author
McDowell, John, 1942-

ISBN
9780674031647

Personal Author
McDowell, John, 1942-

Publication Information
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Physical Description
ix, 343 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents
Ancient philosophy. Falsehood and not-being in Plato's Sophist ; Eudaimonism and realism in Aristotle's ethics ; Deliberation and moral development in Aristotle's ethics ; Incontinence and practical wisdom in Aristotle -- Issues in Wittgenstein. Are meaning, understanding, etc., definite states? ; How not to read Philosophical investigations: Brandom's Wittgenstein -- Issues in Davidson. Scheme-content dualism and empiricism ; Gadamer and Davidson on understanding and relativism ; Subjective, intersubjective, objective -- Reference, objectivity, and knowledge. Evan's Frege ; Referring to oneself ; Towards rehabilitating objectivity ; The disjunctive conception of experience as material for a transcendental argument -- Themes from Mind and world revisited. Experiencing the world ; Naturalism in the philosophy of mind -- Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus. Knowledge and the internal revisited ; Motivating inferentialism: comments on chapter 2 of Making it explicit ; What myth? ; Response to Dreyfus.

Subject Term
Philosophy.


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