McDowell and His Critics
Philosophers and their Critics
1. Edition September 2006
264 Pages, Hardcover
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.
1 Austerity and Openness: R. M. Sainsbury(University of
Texas at Austin and King's College London).
Response to Sainsbury: John McDowell.
2 Reason and Language: Richard G. Heck, Jr. (Brown
University and Arché).
Response to Heck: John McDowell.
3 Some Philosophical Integrations: Akeel Bilgrami
(Columbia University).
Response to Bilgrami: John McDowell.
4 Self-Knowledge and Inner Space: Cynthia Macdonald
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Queen's
University Belfast).
Response to Macdonald: John McDowell.
5 Personal Identity, Ethical not Metaphysical: Carol
Rovane (Columbia University).
Response to Rovane: John McDowell.
6 Acting in the Light of the Appearances: Jonathan Dancy
(University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).
Response to Dancy: John McDowell.
7 External Reasons: Philip Pettit and Michael Smith
(Princeton University).
Response to Pettit and Smith: John McDowell.
8 Aristotle's Use of Prudential Concepts: T. H.
Irwin (Cornell University).
Response to Irwin: John McDowell.
9 Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog: Simon
Blackburn (University of Cambridge).
Response to Blackburn: John McDowell.
10 The Two Natures: Another Dogma?: Graham Macdonald
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Queen's
University Belfast).
Response to Macdonald: John McDowell.
Index
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).