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Book SynopsisThis book collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological.
Trade ReviewThis volume showcases McDowell’s remarkable mastery of a wide range of philosophical subject matter, containing essays that treat Plato, Aristotle, Frege, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, P.F. Strawson, and many other philosophers. It ranges over philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology… He extends our conception of what might be possible and desirable in a naturalistic account of the mind. McDowell’s account promises a more authentic way of retaining our responsiveness to reasons than any other account on offer in contemporary philosophy. -- John Hacker-Wright * Metapsychology *
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 *
[These essays] provide the rare and instructive spectacle of a philosopher who is able to genuinely enrich our understanding of the history of philosophy while at the same time engaging in current philosophical problems and debates. -- Courtney D. Fugate * Philosophy in Review *
