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John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, nature, and meta-ethics, McDowell's most influential work has been in the ...
May 9, 2013 · Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy in the Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences, John H. McDowell has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of...
John H. McDowell (MA, Oxford) is University Professor of Philosophy. Before coming to Pittsburgh in 1986, he taught at University College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Princeton University.
Jun 27, 2024 · When John McDowell's Mind and World was published in 1994 it created great excitement in the world of philosophy. It was widely read and debated by professional philosophers and students alike. Many philosophy books are published each year but there was clear agreement that this one was exceptional. Of course, philosophy is a ...
Jul 6, 2010 · McDowell's central notion is that of “answerability to the world.”. He says that. to make sense of a mental state's or episode's being directed towards the world, in the way in which, say, a belief or judgment is, we need to put the state or episode in a normative context.
Jun 26, 2023 · John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of his thought has been underestimated by many of his readers because they have not realised its unity.
John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world’s most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy.
Jun 20, 2024 · John McDowell's Mind and World was first published in 1994. Based on his six 1991 John Locke Lectures, it is the most free flowing of his published work. It is also the only book-length account of his philosophy. It is an important, dramatic and challenging work for three reasons.
Dec 21, 2001 · This is the second volume of John McDowell's selected papers. These nineteen essays collectively report on McDowell's involvement, over more than twenty years, with questions about the interface between the philosophies of language and mind and with issues in general epistemology.
Apr 29, 2009 · 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...
