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This book presents a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the relationship between the thought of G.W.F. Hegel and that of John McDowell, the latter of whom is widely considered to be one of the most influential living analytic philosophers. It serves as a point of entry in McDowell's and Hegel's philosophy, and a substantial contribution to ongoing debates on perceptual experience and perceptual justification, naturalism, human freedom and action. The chapters gathered in this volume, as well as McDowell's responses, make it clear that McDowell's work paves the way for an original reading of Hegel's texts. His conceptual framework allows for new interpretive possibilities in Hegel's philosophy which, until now, have remained largely unexplored. Moreover, these interpretations shed light on various aspects of continuity and discontinuity between the philosophies of these two authors, thus defining more clearly their positions on specific issues. In addition, they allow us to see Hegel's thought as containing a number of conceptual tools that might be useful for advancing McDowell's own philosophy and contemporary philosophy in general.
List of contents
Chapter 1. What is Phenomenology About? (John McDowell).- Chapter 2. McDowell, Hegel and Allison's Reading of Kant (Tom Rockmore).- Chapter 3. Empirical Concepts and Perceptual Experience. On McDowell's Interpretation of Kant and Hegel (Erick Lima).- Chapter 4. Hegel, McDowell, and Perceptual Experience: A Response to John McDowell (Stephen Houlgate).- Chapter 5. Senses and Sensations: on Hegel's Later Picture of Perceptual Experience (Luca Corti).- Chapter 6. Hegel and McDowell on Perceptual Experience and Judgment (Paul Redding).- Chapter 7. Hegel and McDowell on the Unboundedness of the Conceptual (Federico Sanguinetti).- Chapter 8. McDowell and the Positions of Thought towards Objectivity (Michela Bordignon).- Chapter 9. A Second Naturalisation for a Second Nature (Ernesto Perini-Santos).- Chapter 10. Forms of Naturalism. Hegel and McDowell on Science and Nature (Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer).- Chapter 11. Reason in Action. A Response to McDowell on Hegel (Robert Pippin).
About the author
Federico Sanguinetti received his PhD in Philosophy from both the University of Padova (2013) and the University of Münster (2015) and is now Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He specializes in Classical German Philosophy and contemporary epistemology. He is author of the book La teoria hegeliana della sensazione (“Hegel’s Theory of Sensation”) and of several essays on Hegel and McDowell.
André J. Abath received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield (2007), and is now Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He specializes in philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind and epistemology, and has written several articles in these areas.
Summary
Is the first and unique extended work on the relations between Hegel’s and McDowell’s thought
Contributes to the contemporary rehabilitation of Hegel within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition
Brings together renowned scholars and younger researchers working at the cutting edge of the topics covered
Offers a key contribution to the overcoming of the Analytic/Continental divide in philosophy
