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- John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jun 26, 2023 · John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of his thought has been underestimated by many of his readers because they have not realised its unity.
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.
Sep 29, 2015 · John McDowell was born in Boksburg, South Africa, in 1942 and educated at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and at New College Oxford. He was a fellow in philosophy at Oxford from 1966 to 1986 where much of his work drew on Greek philosophy, on broadly analytic philosophy of language and thought, and on Wittgenstein.
When John McDowell's Mind and World was published in 1994 it created great excitement in the world of philosophy. It was widely read and debated by professional philosophers and students alike.
Apr 7, 2020 · In Mind and World John McDowell introduces a dilemma that he takes to lie at the heart of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind. It relates to a line of thought first made explicit by Wilfrid Sellars (1956) and known as the “myth of the given”.
Written over the last two decades, John McDowell's papers, as a whole, deal with issues of philosophy. Specifically, separate groups of essays look at the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato; moral questions regarding the Greek tradition; interpretations of Wittgenstein's work; and, finally, questions about personal identity and the ...
