
Reason in Nature
New Essays on Themes from John McDowell
$72.79
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2023
Summary
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 philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy. A common thread running through McDowe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674241046 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0674241045 |
| Author: | Matthew Boyle, Dr. Evgenia Mylonaki |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
This is an impressive collection of sophisticated essays–worthy of John McDowell, who is surely one of the most important and interesting philosophers of our time.
The essays in this volume lend support to the editors’ aim of showing the unity of McDowell’s thought. The book will be of great value for those seeking to understand and develop further the philosophy of one of the foremost thinkers of our day. – David Gordon * Philosophical Quarterly *Superb…The very high quality of discussion is a testament not only to the various authors’ own insights and abilities but also to the value of the idea and its various actualisations in McDowell’s work…I anticipate that his indirect influence will spread even further through careful engagement with this important collection. – Guy Longworth * Mind *This is an impressive collection of sophisticated essays—worthy of John McDowell, who is surely one of the most important and interesting philosophers of our time. – Berislav Marušić, University of EdinburghThis collection of essays in honor of John McDowell is superb. It both illuminates McDowell’s own work in new ways and suggests intriguing, very fruitful directions for future research. The excellent essays are held together by the editors’ outstanding introduction, which provides a framework for pursuing underlying interconnections among the essays themselves, and in McDowell’s own approach to the rich assortment of topics they tackle. – Naomi Elian, University of WarwickA stellar group of philosophers who have long engaged with his work explore the wellsprings of McDowell’s deep and subtle thought, and the common themes, perspectives, and strategies that tie together his insights across the many dimensions of human experience he addresses. Indispensable. – Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
About The Author
Matthew Boyle
Matthew Boyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Evgenia Mylonaki is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece.
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