Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars

by John McDowell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674725805
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	09/02/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

I. Having the World in View: Sellars, Kant, and Intentionality

1. Sellars on Perceptual Experience


2. The Logical Form of an Intuition


3. Intentionality as a Relation

II. Kantian Themes in Hegel and Sellars

4. Hegel’s Idealism as a Radicalization of Kant


5. Self-Determining Subjectivity and External Constraint


6. Sensory Consciousness in Kant and Sellars


7. Conceptual Capacities in Perception

III. Reading Hegel

8. The Apperceptive I and the Empirical Self: Towards a Heterodox Reading of “Lordship and Bondage” in Hegel’s Phenomenology


9. Towards a Reading of Hegel on Action in the “Reason” Chapter of the Phenomenology


10. On Pippin’s Postscript

IV. Sellarsian Themes

11. The Constitutive Ideal of Rationality: Davidson and Sellars


12. Why is Sellars’s Essay Called “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”?


13. Sellars’s Thomism


14. Avoiding the Myth of the Given

• Bibliography


• Credits


• Index

Editorial Reviews

As rich in ideas as philosophy today ever is. I know of no contemporary philosopher whose work repays as handsomely careful and repeated study, no philosopher more likely to shed original and yet fundamentally revealing light on a difficult subject, no philosopher whose ‘philosophical ear’ or ‘philosophical sense’ is more worthy of respect.

The Philosophers’ Magazine - Tim Thornton

McDowell offers provocative and illuminating accounts of [Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel] and other philosophers, and their relationship to the philosophical tradition.

John Schwenkler

The volume offers a sample of philosophical work of the finest quality.

Teorema - Stelios Virvidakis

As rich in ideas as philosophy today ever is. I know of no contemporary philosopher whose work repays as handsomely careful and repeated study, no philosopher more likely to shed original and yet fundamentally revealing light on a difficult subject, no philosopher whose 'philosophical ear' or 'philosophical sense' is more worthy of respect.--Tim Thornton "The Philosophers' Magazine" (8/12/2009 12:00:00 AM)

McDowell offers provocative and illuminating accounts of [Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel] and other philosophers, and their relationship to the philosophical tradition.--John Schwenkler "Commonweal" (2/12/2010 12:00:00 AM)

The volume offers a sample of philosophical work of the finest quality.--Stelios Virvidakis "Teorema" (11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)

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