{"title":"Books by John McDowell","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780674576100","title":"Mind and World – With a New Introduction by the Author","description":"Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.   John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy—the insidious persistence of dualism—in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable—but surmountable—failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars calls the “logical space of reasons” into the natural world. What underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties. By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293009162613,"sku":"9780674576100","price":29.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674576100_eceb3e83-31be-443d-be50-45b5fb2e19a7.jpg?v=1786014797"},{"product_id":"perception-and-action","title":"Perception and Action","description":"Over the last half century, John McDowell has solidified a singular career in the history and evolution of philosophy. This volume--one half of a companion-volume set--collects a series of essays from the eminent philosopher on perception and action. The first section of this volume focuses on the ways that perceptual experiences can mislead us. Included are the essays \"Perception as a capacity for knowledge,\" and \"Perceptual experience and empirical rationality,\" among others. The second section is comprised of a longstanding conversation with philosopher Charles Travis. While McDowell argues that we should take the perceptual experiences of rational perceivers to have content that is in a certain sense conceptual, Travis radically disagrees. He argues that our perceptual experience, like the perceptions of animals that do not have conceptual capacities, simply places our surroundings before us. Included here are the essays \"Perceptual knowledge: both relational and contentful,\" and \"Are the senses silent?\" among others.This volume presents some of the most important philosophical conversations in recent memory in a much-needed book format. It brings together crucial philosophical developments from the past few decades and is a fitting companion to the volume Mind, World, and German Idealism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555329646965,"sku":"9780197860625","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mind-world-and-german-idealism","title":"Mind, World, and German Idealism","description":"Over the last half century, John McDowell has solidified a singular career in the history and evolution of philosophy. This volume--one half of a companion-volume set--collects a series of essays from the eminent philosopher on philosophical debates of the twentieth and twenty-first century, and German Idealism.The first section contains a miscellany of interventions in recent philosophical conversation, including commentary on debates with Hubert Dreyfus and Wilfrid Sellars. Included here are \"The Myth of Mind as Detached,\" and \"Colours as Secondary Qualities,\" among others. The second section contains a number of essays on the interpretation of German Idealism, including a detailed reading of Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories, and a suite of essays on Robert Brandom's interpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit. Included in this section are \"Rationalism Without Dogmas,\" and \"Second Nature and Geist,\" among others. This volume presents some of the most important philosophical conversations in recent memory in a much-needed book format. It brings together crucial philosophical developments from the past few decades and is a fitting companion to the volume Perception and Action.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680052158837,"sku":"9780197860359","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-john-mcdowell.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}