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Natural Theology - Five Views
James K., Jr. Dew, Ronnie P Jr Campbell; Contributions by John McDowell, Alister McGrath, Paul Moser, …
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Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture
of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the
1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished
philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty
and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete
and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that
no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to
ignore. John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern
philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his
discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive
empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls
await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell
exposes these, traps by exploiting the work of contemporary
philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These
difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable - but
surmountable - failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars
calls "the logical space of reasons" into the natural world. What
underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain
attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes
to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties.
By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the
intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed
as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception
of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This
approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally
satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.
"Philosophy and Animal Life" offers a new way of thinking about
animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of
philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of
Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses
analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility
of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the
animal question as it is bound up with the more general problem of
philosophical skepticism. Focusing specifically on J. M. Coetzee's
"The Lives of Animals," she considers the failure of language to
capture the vulnerability of humans and animals.
Stanley Cavell responds to Diamond's argument with his own close
reading of Coetzee's work, connecting the human-animal relation to
further themes of morality and philosophy. John McDowell follows
with a critique of both Diamond and Cavell, and Ian Hacking
explains why Cora Diamond's essay is so deeply perturbing and,
paradoxically for a philosopher, he favors poetry over philosophy
as a way of overcoming some of her difficulties. Cary Wolfe's
introduction situates these arguments within the broader context of
contemporary continental philosophy and theory, particularly
Jacques Derrida's work on deconstruction and the question of the
animal. "Philosophy and Animal Life" is a crucial collection for
those interested in animal rights, ethics, and the development of
philosophical inquiry. It also offers a unique exploration of the
role of ethics in Coetzee's fiction.
A crucial moment came in the developing split between
Anglo-American and continental European philosophers when G. E.
Moore and Bertrand Russell rebelled against the "Hegelianism" of
their teachers and inaugurated the tradition of "analytic"
philosophy. In this new book, John McDowell builds on his much
discussed Mind and World-one of the most highly regarded books in
contemporary philosophy. McDowell, who has long commanded attention
for his fresh approach to issues in contemporary epistemology,
philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, shocked some
mainstream analytic philosophers in Mind and World by drawing
inspiration not only from analytic philosophers but also from
continental philosophers, most notably Hegel. McDowell argues that
the roots of some problems plaguing contemporary philosophy can be
found in issues that were first discerned by Kant, and that the
best way to get a handle on them is to follow those issues as they
are reshaped in the writings of Hegel and Sellars. Having the World
in View will be a decisive further step toward healing the
divisions in contemporary philosophy, by showing how central
methods of the two traditions remain deeply entangled and by
revealing how philosophers in both camps might still learn from
each other.
"Philosophy and Animal Life" offers a new way of thinking about
animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of
philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of
Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses
analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility
of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the
animal question as it is bound up with the more general problem of
philosophical skepticism. Focusing specifically on J. M. Coetzee's
"The Lives of Animals," she considers the failure of language to
capture the vulnerability of humans and animals.
Stanley Cavell responds to Diamond's argument with his own close
reading of Coetzee's work, connecting the human-animal relation to
further themes of morality and philosophy. John McDowell follows
with a critique of both Diamond and Cavell, and Ian Hacking
explains why Cora Diamond's essay is so deeply perturbing and,
paradoxically for a philosopher, he favors poetry over philosophy
as a way of overcoming some of her difficulties. Cary Wolfe's
introduction situates these arguments within the broader context of
contemporary continental philosophy and theory, particularly
Jacques Derrida's work on deconstruction and the question of the
animal. "Philosophy and Animal Life" is a crucial collection for
those interested in animal rights, ethics, and the development of
philosophical inquiry. It also offers a unique exploration of the
role of ethics in Coetzee's fiction.
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