TY  - GEN
T1  - Reason in nature : new essays on themes from John McDowell
A2  - Boyle, Matthew, 1972-
A2  - Boyle, Matthew, 1972-
A2  - Conant, James
A2  - Ginsborg, Hannah
A2  - Hornsby, Jennifer
A2  - Kern, Andrea
A2  - Mylonaki, Evgenia, 1978-
A2  - Mylonaki, Evgenia, 1978-
A2  - Pippin, Robert
A2  - Rödl, Sebastian
A2  - Thompson, Michael
A2  - Valaris, Markos
A2  - Whiting, Jennifer
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1343104416
AB  - A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell's arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural. John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world's most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy. A common thread running through McDowell's diverse contributions has been his critique of a form of reductive naturalism according to which human minds must be governed by laws essentially similar to those that govern the rest of nature. Against this widely accepted view, McDowell maintains that human minds should be seen as "transformed" by reason in such a way that the principles governing our minds, while not supernatural, are in an important sense sui generis. Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki assemble a group of distinguished philosophers to clarify and criticize McDowell's core position and explore its repercussions for contemporary debates about metaphysics and epistemology, perception, language, action, and value. The essays here scrutinize the core idea that human reason constitutes a second nature, emerging from humanity's basic animal nature, and reflect on the underpinnings of McDowell's claims in Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Many of the contributors extend McDowell's views beyond his own articulations, elaborating the transformative role that reason plays in human experience.In clarifying and expanding McDowell's insights, Reason in Nature challenges contemporary orthodoxy, much as McDowell himself has. And, as this collection makes clear, McDowell's unorthodox position is of enduring importance and has wide-ranging implications, still not fully appreciated, for ongoing philosophical debates--
OP  - 382
CN  - B1647.M144 R43 2022eb
SN  - 9780674287686
SN  - 0674287681
SN  - 9780674287679
SN  - 0674287673
SN  - 9780674241046
SN  - 0674241045
KW  - McDowell, John, : 1942-
KW  - Philosophy of mind.
KW  - Naturalism.
KW  - Reason.
KW  - Philosophie de l'esprit.
KW  - Naturalisme.
KW  - Raison.
KW  - naturalism (philosophical movement)
KW  - reason.
KW  - Philosophy / Movements / Humanism.
KW  - Naturalism
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Reason
KW  - Plato.
KW  - Wittgenstein.
KW  - anti-reductionism.
KW  - disjunctivism.
KW  - ethics.
KW  - history of philosophy.
KW  - human nature.
KW  - idealism.
KW  - philosophy of action.
KW  - philosophy of mind.
KW  - philosophy of perception.
KW  - rational animals.
KW  - rationality.
KW  - rule-following.
KW  - second nature.
KW  - virtue ethics.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -