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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025500220 | 190 M138E 2009 | 1 |