John McDowell
John McDowell
In this clear and engaging book, Tim Thornton introduces and examines the full range of McDowell's thought. After a helpful introduction setting out McDowell's general view of philosophy, Thornton introduces and explains the following topics:
Wittgenstein on philosophy, normativity and understanding;
value judgements;
theories of meaning and sense;
singular thought and Cartesianism;
perceptual experience and knowledge, disjunctivism and openness to the world;
Mind and World, the content of perceptual experience and idealism;
action and the debate with Hubert Dreyfus on conceptual content and skilled coping.
This second edition has been significantly revised and expanded to include new sections on: McDowell's work on disjunctivism and criticisms of it; a new chapter on McDowell's modification of his account of perceptual experience and conceptual content, and criticisms by Charles Travis; and a new chapter on action and McDowell's engagement with Hubert Dreyfus and the debate concerning skilled coping and mindedness.
The addition of a glossary and suggestions for further reading makes John McDowell, second edition essential reading for those studying McDowell, philosophy
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In this clear and engaging book, Tim Thornton introduces and examines the full range of McDowell's thought. After a helpful introduction setting out McDowell's general view of philosophy, Thornton introduces and explains the following topics:
Wittgenstein on philosophy, normativity and understanding;
value judgements;
theories of meaning and sense;
singular thought and Cartesianism;
perceptual experience and knowledge, disjunctivism and openness to the world;
Mind and World, the content of perceptual experience and idealism;
action and the debate with Hubert Dreyfus on conceptual content and skilled coping.
This second edition has been significantly revised and expanded to include new sections on: McDowell's work on disjunctivism and criticisms of it; a new chapter on McDowell's modification of his account of perceptual experience and conceptual content, and criticisms by Charles Travis; and a new chapter on action and McDowell's engagement with Hubert Dreyfus and the debate concerning skilled coping and mindedness.
The addition of a glossary and suggestions for further reading makes John McDowell, second edition essential reading for those studying McDowell, philosophy
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