John McDowell
Experience, Norm, and Nature

Jakob Lindgaard (Author)

9781405159883, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 1 August 2008

304 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 1.3 cm, 0.526 kg

John McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature combines original essays by leading contemporary philosophers with point by point responses by McDowell himself to explore the central themes of one of the most innovative philosophers of our day.

  • Provides original and critical essays examining McDowell’s reading and appropriation of Sellars, Kant, and Hegel in his own philosophy
  • Explores McDowell’s notions of perceptual experience and his proposed rethinking of our conception of nature in light of the challenges that reason and normativity introduce
  • Includes an original essay by McDowell that includes significant developments of his conception of perceptual experience
  • Offers thorough and penetrating responses by McDowell to his critics

Contributors vii

Introduction ix

1. Avoiding the Myth of the Given 1
John McDowell

2. Perception and Content 15
Bill Brewer

3. McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions 32
Willem A. deVries

4. Three Sorts of Naturalism 52
Hans Fink

5. Varieties of Nature in Hegel and McDowell 72
Christoph Halbig

6. Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell 92
Stephen Houlgate

7. Practical Reason and its Animal Precursors 112
Sabina Lovibond

8. Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowell 124
Kenneth R. Westphal

9. Science and Sensibility: McDowell and Sellars on Perceptual Experience 152
Michael Williams

10. Reason’s Reach 176
Charles Travis

11. Responses 200
John McDowell

Index 269

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]