On Thinking and the World - John Mcdowell''s Mind and World

Informationen zum Autor Dr Sandra M. Dingli is from The Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking at the University of Malta! Malta. Zusammenfassung John McDowell's "Mind and World" has become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. This book elaborates and simplifies his ideas giving greater clarity to them and assisting in the understanding and appreciation of his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; On thinking and the world; Kantian control on our thinking; Can we do without non-conceptual content?; The third dogma of empiricism; Reason and nature; Realism and anti-realism; McDowell's quietism; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

John McDowell's "Mind and World" has become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. This book elaborates and simplifies his ideas giving greater clarity to them and assisting in the understanding and appreciation of his work.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra M. Dingli, Dingli Sandra M., Sandra M. Dingli
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2005
• EAN: 9780754651765
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-5176-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy; Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge