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This book presents a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the
relationship between the thought of G.W.F. Hegel and that of John
McDowell, the latter of whom is widely considered to be one of the
most influential living analytic philosophers. It serves as a point
of entry in McDowell's and Hegel's philosophy, and a substantial
contribution to ongoing debates on perceptual experience and
perceptual justification, naturalism, human freedom and action. The
chapters gathered in this volume, as well as McDowell's responses,
make it clear that McDowell's work paves the way for an original
reading of Hegel's texts. His conceptual framework allows for new
interpretive possibilities in Hegel's philosophy which, until now,
have remained largely unexplored. Moreover, these interpretations
shed light on various aspects of continuity and discontinuity
between the philosophies of these two authors, thus defining more
clearly their positions on specific issues. In addition, they allow
us to see Hegel's thought as containing a number of conceptual
tools that might be useful for advancing McDowell's own philosophy
and contemporary philosophy in general.
This book provides an account of what is to know what things are,
focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as
marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much
attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The
knowledge of what things are is to be understood as resulting from
successful inquiries directed at questions of the form 'What is
x?', where x stands for a given kind of thing. The book also
addresses knowledge-wh in general (which includes knowledge-who and
knowledge-where), as well as the phenomenon of ignorance regarding
what things are and our obligations in respect to knowing what
things are. It also brings to light new avenues of research for
those interested in the relation between the knowledge of what
things are and concept possession and amelioration. 'Knowing What
Things Are' should be of interest to researchers in Epistemology,
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Social
Philosophy and Linguistics.
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