An edition of Mind and world (1994)

Mind and world

with a new introduction

1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
  • 1 Want to read
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 1 Want to read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
July 13, 2024 | History
An edition of Mind and world (1994)

Mind and world

with a new introduction

1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
  • 1 Want to read

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.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
191

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Mind and world
Mind and world: with a new introduction
1996, Harvard University Press
in English - 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Cover of: Mind and world
Mind and world
1994, Harvard University Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
121/.4
Library of Congress
BD418.3 .M37 1996, BD418.3.M37 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 191 p. ;
Number of pages
191

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL984502M
Internet Archive
mindworld00mcdo_069
ISBN 10
0674576101
LCCN
96022268
OCLC/WorldCat
34839690
Library Thing
25186
Goodreads
335862

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
July 13, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
December 5, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
October 28, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
November 23, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record