McDowell and His Critics
Philosophers and their Critics
1. Auflage September 2006
264 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The most comprehensive discussion available of the work of
philosopher, John McDowell.
* Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished
philosophers on McDowell's work, along with substantial
replies to each by McDowell himself.
* The contributors are philosophers with international
reputations for their work in the areas in which they are
contributing.
* Covers the whole of McDowell's philosophy, including his
contributions in ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy
of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics and
epistemology.
* McDowell's replies to the contributions in this volume
contribute to the body of his work.
Introduction ix
1 Austerity and Openness 1
R. M. Sainsbury
Response to Sainsbury 14
JOHN McDOWELL
2 Reason and Language 22
Richard G. Heck, Jr.
Response to Heck 45
JOHN McDOWELL
3 Some Philosophical Integrations 50
Akeel Bilgrami
Response to Bilgrami 66
JOHN McDOWELL
4 Self-Knowledge and Inner Space 73
CYNTHIA MacDONALD
Response to Macdonald 89
JOHN McDOWELL
5 Personal Identity, Ethical not Metaphysical 95
Carol Rovane
Response to Rovane 114
JOHN McDOWELL
6 Acting in the Light of the Appearances 121
Jonathan Dancy
Response to Dancy 134
JOHN McDOWELL
7 External Reasons 142
Philip Pettit and Michael Smith
Response to Pettit and Smith 170
JOHN McDOWELL
8 Aristotle's Use of Prudential Concepts 180
T. H. Irwin
Response to Irwin 198
JOHN McDOWELL
9 Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog 203
Simon Blackburn
Response to Blackburn 217
JOHN McDOWELL
10 The Two Natures: Another Dogma? 222
GRAHAM MacDONALD
Response to Macdonald 235
JOHN McDOWELL
Index 240
of one of the most significant and original philosophers of our
day. They raise some fundamental questions about McDowell's views
on a variety of topics, to which his own exemplary responses
provide extremely valuable further elaboration and development of
his thought." Bill Brewer, University of Warwick
"A very welcome addition to the 'Philosophers and their
Critics' series: there is much to be learnt from the
interplay between the ten contributors' probing papers and
McDowell's responses to them." Jennifer Hornsby, Birkbeck
College
Queen's University Belfast and Adjunct Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her
previous publications include Mind-Body Identity
Theories (1989), Varieties of Things: Foundations of
Contemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell, 2005), and she is
co-editor, with Stephen Laurence, of Contemporary Readings in
the Foundations of Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1998).
Graham Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Distinguished
International Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture,
Queen's University Belfast. He is co-author, with Philip
Pettit, of Semantics and Social Science (1980). In addition,
he is editor of Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A.
J. Ayer, with His Replies to Them (1979), co-editor, with
Crispin Wright, of Fact, Science, and Morality (Blackwell,
1986), and co-editor, with Philip Catton, of Karl Popper:
Critical Appraisals (2004).
Together, they have edited Philosophy of Psychology: Debates
on Psychological Explanation and Connectionism: Debates on
Psychological Explanation (both Blackwell, 1995).