Macdonald / MacDonald McDowell and His Critics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77707-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophers and their Critics

The most comprehensive discussion available of the work ofphilosopher, John McDowell.
* Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguishedphilosophers on McDowell's work, along with substantialreplies to each by McDowell himself.
* The contributors are philosophers with internationalreputations for their work in the areas in which they arecontributing.
* Covers the whole of McDowell's philosophy, including hiscontributions in ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophyof mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics andepistemology.
* McDowell's replies to the contributions in this volumecontribute to the body of his work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Cynthia

MacDonald, Graham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1 Austerity and Openness: R. M. Sainsbury(University ofTexas at Austin and King's College London).
Response to Sainsbury: John McDowell.
2 Reason and Language: Richard G. Heck, Jr. (BrownUniversity 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'sUniversity Belfast).
Response to Macdonald: John McDowell.
5 Personal Identity, Ethical not Metaphysical: CarolRovane (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: SimonBlackburn (University of Cambridge).
Response to Blackburn: John McDowell.
10 The Two Natures: Another Dogma?: Graham Macdonald(University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Queen'sUniversity Belfast).
Response to Macdonald: John McDowell.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy atQueen's University Belfast and Adjunct Professor ofPhilosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Herprevious publications include Mind-Body IdentityTheories (1989), Varieties of Things: Foundations ofContemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell, 2005), and she isco-editor, with Stephen Laurence, of Contemporary Readings inthe Foundations of Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1998).
Graham Macdonald is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Canterbury, New Zealand, and DistinguishedInternational Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture,Queen's University Belfast. He is co-author, with PhilipPettit, 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, withCrispin 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: Debateson Psychological Explanation and Connectionism: Debates onPsychological Explanation (both Blackwell, 1995).