Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell

✍ Scribed by Matthew Boyle (editor); Evgenia Mylonaki (editor)

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I. Nature and “Second Nature”
1. Skepticism and Quietism about Meaning and Normativity
2. Forms of Nature: “First,” “Second,” “Living,” “Rational,” and “Phronetic”
II. Reason in Perception and Action
3. The Rational Role of Perceptual Content
4. Resolute Disjunctivism
5. Control and Knowledge in Action: Developing Some Themes from McDowell
6. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Action
III. Consequences for Metaphysics
7. Perceiving the World
8. Seeing the World: Moral Difficulty and Drama
IV. Historical Precedents
9. See the Right Thing: “Paternal” Reason, Love, and Phronêsis
10. Self-Consciousness and the Idea of Bildung: Hegel’s Radicalization of Kant
11. The Idealism in German Idealism
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index