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Title: Mind and World by John McDowell ISBN: 0-674-57610-1 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading
Comment: This text with its new Introduction clearly demonstrates McDowell's prominence in American philosophy. McDowell is certainly one of the most important, careful, and creative minds in the field. Mind and World is crucial reading material on perceptual content, judgment, and experience.
Inspired by Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, McDowell interrogates the notion of a 'logical space of reasons' as having location in the natural world. At times adopting an obscure and abstract prose style, McDowell nevertheless identifies specific anxieties concerning the realtion between mind and world: tensions between a Kantian sensible intuition (or 'minimal empiricism')--how our thoughts are answerable to and directed at the world--and the idea of receiving an impression (or Kantian humility) as a transaction with the world, placing it in a 'logical space of reasons.' So there is a tension between a normative context, that is, how the world 'impinges' on us, which is within the logical space of reasons, and empirical concepts that are supposed to be within the logical space of nature. But if we take Sellars seriously, identifying something as an impression--an economy of logical space of nature 'giving' or 'impinging' on the mind, then we are responsible to characterize just how an 'impinging world' is different from justifying or placing a verdict on empirical descriptions. McDowell's tension is between a 'minimal empiricism'--thought is answerable to a tribunal of experience--and how experience is indeed a tribunal, which attributes verdicts on thoughts.
Along the way, McDowell critiques the Myth of the Given, Davidson's coherentism, and argues for 'direct realism.'
McDowell has a flair for characterizing and 'exorcising' philosophical anxieties between empiricism and naturalism, and he employs creative metaphors that are extremely helpful, such as the 'seesaw' and a 'sideways on view.'
The first three lectures are most important, wherein he discusses conceptual and non-conceptual content. Here he engages the views of Sellars, Quine, Davidson, Evans, and Peacocke.
Mind and World is a masterful example of careful and thorough-going philosophy--at its best.
Rating: 4
Summary: For philosophy majors
Comment: This is a difficult, but well written text of a series of lectures given by McDowell. Frankly, it required a lot of concentration on my part, but the effort was worth it. McDowell makes good sense of the problems of empiricism. He is also a good stylist.
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Title: Reading McDowell: On Mind and World by Nicholas H. Smith, Nicholas Smith ISBN: 0415212138 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality by John McDowell ISBN: 0674007123 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Mind, Value, and Reality by John McDowell ISBN: 0674007131 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, Robert Brandom ISBN: 0674251555 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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Title: Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment by Robert B. Brandom ISBN: 0674543300 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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