Reason in Nature : : New Essays on Themes from John McDowell / / ed. by Matthew Boyle, Evgenia Mylonaki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Boyle, Matthew,; Conant, James,; Ginsborg, Hannah,; Hornsby, Jennifer,; Kern, Andrea,; Mylonaki, Evgenia,; Pippin, Robert,; Rödl, Sebastian,; Thompson, Michael,; Valaris, Markos,; Whiting, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Boyle, Matthew,; Mylonaki, Evgenia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural.John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world’s most influential living p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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