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The Engaged Intellect

Philosophical Essays

John McDowell

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Publication Date: 09/02/2013

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Preface
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’s Ethics
- 4. Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle
II. Issues in Wittgenstein
- 5. Are Meaning, Understanding, etc., Definite States?
- 6. How Not to Read Philosophical Investigations: Brandom’s Wittgenstein
III. Issues in Davidson
- 7. Scheme-Content Dualism and Empiricism
- 8. Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism
- 9. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
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
V. Themes from Mind and World Revisited
- 14. Experiencing the World
- 15. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind
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
Bibliography
Credits
Index

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