John McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Avoiding the Myth of the Given (pages 1–14): John McDowell
Chapter 2 Perception and Content (pages 15–31): Bill Brewer
Chapter 3 McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions (pages 32–51): Willem A. deVries
Chapter 4 Three Sorts of Naturalism (pages 52–71): Hans Fink
Chapter 5 Varieties of Nature in Hegel and McDowell (pages 72–91): Christoph Halbig
Chapter 6 Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell (pages 92–111): Stephen Houlgate
Chapter 7 Practical Reason and its Animal Precursors (pages 112–123): Sabina Lovibond
Chapter 8 Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowell (pages 124–151): Kenneth R. Westphal
Chapter 9 Science and Sensibility: McDowell and Sellars on Perceptual Experience (pages 152–175): Michael Williams
Chapter 10 Reason's Reach (pages 176–199): Charles Travis
Chapter 11 Responses (pages 200–267): John McDowell