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" The engaged intellect : "
John McDowell.
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BL
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1001823
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b756193
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McDowell, John Henry.
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The engaged intellect : : philosophical essays /\ John McDowell.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2009.
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ix, 343 pages ;; 25 cm
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0674031644
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: 9780674031647
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"The Engaged Intellect collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological. It is typical of McDowell to represent his own best insights either as already to be found in the writings of his heroes (Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Sellars) or as inevitably emerging from a charitable modification of the views of those (such as Anscombe, Sellars, Davidson, Evans, Rorty, Dreyfus, and Brandom) subjected here to criticism. McDowell therefore develops his own philosophical picture in these pages through a method of indirection. The method is one of intervening in a philosophical dialectic at a characteristic juncture - in which it is difficult to avoid the feeling that further progress is required. McDowell shows how progress is to be achieved by preserving what is most attractive in the views of those he is in conversation with, while whittling away their weaknesses. As he practices this method, what emerges through the volume is the unity of McDowell's own views. The combination of philosophical breadth with dialectical depth - of intricate argumentative detail with overall philosophical coherence - marks McDowell as one of the most compelling philosophers of our time."--Jacket.
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Philosophy.
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Filosofi.
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Philosophie
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Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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190
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BD21.M225 2009
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5,1ssgn
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CI 6444rvk
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