Mind, value, and reality
"This volume collects some of John McDowell's influential papers, written at various times over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into t…
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- Full title :Mind, value, and reality / John McDowell.
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"This volume collects some of John McDowell's influential papers, written at various times over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgenstein's difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 400 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674576136, 9780674576131, 0674007131, 9780674007130
- oclc:ocm37910019
- LC Classification:B29
- Dewey Decimal:100
Table of Contents
The role of eudaimonia in Aristotle's ethics -- Some issues in Aristotle's moral psychology -- Virtue and reason -- Are moral requirements hypothetical imperatives? -- Might there be external reasons? -- Aesthetic value, objectivity, and the fabric of the world -- Values and secondary qualities -- Projection and truth in ethics -- Two sorts of naturalism -- Non-cognitivism and rule-following -- Wittgenstein on following a rule -- Meaning and intentionality in Wittgenstein's later philosophy -- One strand in the private language argument -- Intentionality and interiority in Wittgenstein -- Functionalism and anomalous monism -- The content of perceptual experience -- Reductionism and the first person.
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