The Engaged Intellect

Philosophical Essays

John McDowell

      I. Ancient Philosophy

    1. Falsehood and Not-Being in Plato’s Sophist
    2. Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle’s Ethics
    3. Deliberation and Moral Development in Aristotle
    4. Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle

      5. II. Issues in Wittgenstein

    5. Are Meaning, Understanding, etc., Definite States?
    6. How Not to Read Philosophical Investigations: Brandom’s Wittgenstein

      7. III. Issues in Davidson

    7. Scheme-Content Dualism and Empiricism
    8. Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism
    9. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective

      10. IV. Reference, Objectivity, and Knowledge

    10. Evans’s Frege
    11. Referring to Oneself
    12. Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity
    13. The Disjunctive Conception of Experience as Material for a Transcendental Argument

      14. V. Themes from Mind and World Revisited

    14. Experiencing the World
    15. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind

      16. VI. Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus

    16. Knowledge and the Internal Revisited
    17. Motivating Inferentialism: Comments on Chapter 2 of Making It Explicit
    18. What Myth?
    19. Response to Dreyfus
    • Biography
    • Credits
    • Index
  • Cover: The Engaged Intellect

John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.