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On Thinking and the World - John McDowell's Mind and World (Paperback)
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On Thinking and the World - John McDowell's Mind and World (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
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John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994,
become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner
in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world.
Yet McDowell's ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book
Sandra Dingli both elaborates and simplifies McDowell's ideas in
order to give greater clarity to them and to assist in the
understanding and appreciation of his work. Dingli selects five
particular contemporary philosophical topics which McDowell deals
with and investigates in detail the implications of particular
points of view, analysing the current literature on each topic and
drawing out shortcomings and possibilities for overcoming them.
This work is, then, both a critique and complement to McDowell's
text. McDowell's project is to dissolve a number of dualisms such
as sensibility and understanding, conceptual and non conceptual
content, scheme and content, and reason and nature. Dingli
critically analyses each of these and claims that a proper
understanding of the philosophical method of quietism is important
for a correct understanding of this text, concluding that McDowell
does not go far enough in his attempt to attain peace for
philosophy as traditional dichotomies such as that of realism and
anti-realism still appear to exert a grip on his thinking.
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