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 McDowell's diverse contributions has been
his critique of a form of reductive naturalism according to which
human minds must be governed by laws essentially similar to those
that govern the rest of nature. Against this widely accepted view,
McDowell maintains that human minds should be seen as "transformed"
by reason in such a way that the principles governing our minds,
while not supernatural, are in an important sense sui generis.
Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki assemble a group of
distinguished philosophers to clarify and criticize McDowell's core
position and explore its repercussions for contemporary debates
about metaphysics and epistemology, perception, language, action,
and value. The essays here scrutinize the core idea that human
reason constitutes a second nature, emerging from humanity's basic
animal nature, and reflect on the underpinnings of McDowell's
claims in Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Many of the contributors
extend McDowell's views beyond his own articulations, elaborating
the transformative role that reason plays in human experience. In
clarifying and expanding McDowell's insights, Reason in Nature
challenges contemporary orthodoxy, much as McDowell himself has.
And, as this collection makes clear, McDowell's unorthodox position
is of enduring importance and has wide-ranging implications, still
not fully appreciated, for ongoing philosophical debates.
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