02519cam a2200313 a 4500 6973561 BD-DhUL 20161122104137.0 080328s2009 mau b 001 e eng 2008013845 9780674031647 (alk. paper) 40016161926 (OCoLC)ocn221663148 (OCoLC)221663148 (OCoLC)225874294 (NNC)6973561 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP UKM C#P OrLoB-B BD-DhUL BD21 .M225 2009 190 22 MCE McDowell, John, 1942- The engaged intellect : philosophical essays / John McDowell. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. ix, 343 p. ; 25 cm. USD 40.50 Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Ancient Philosophy -- II. Issues in Wittgenstein -- III. Issues in Davidson -- IV. Reference, Objectivity, and Knowledge -- V. Themes from Mind and World Revisited -- VI. Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus. "The Engaged Intellect 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. It is typical of McDowell to represent his own best insights either as already to be found in the writings of his heroes (Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Sellars) or as inevitably emerging from a charitable modification of the views of those (such as Anscombe, Sellars, Davidson, Evans, Rorty, Dreyfus, and Brandom) subjected here to criticism. McDowell therefore develops his own philosophical picture in these pages through a method of indirection. The method is one of intervening in a philosophical dialectic at a characteristic juncture - in which it is difficult to avoid the feeling that further progress is required. McDowell shows how progress is to be achieved by preserving what is most attractive in the views of those he is in conversation with, while whittling away their weaknesses. As he practices this method, what emerges through the volume is the unity of McDowell's own views. The combination of philosophical breadth with dialectical depth - of intricate argumentative detail with overall philosophical coherence - marks McDowell as one of the most compelling philosophers of our time."--BOOK JACKET. Philosophy. ddc BK 127109 127109 0 0 ddc 0 190_000000000000000_MCE 0 NFIC 239404 DUL DUL GEN 2012-12-19 Purchased 190 MCE 477443 2016-11-22 1 2016-11-22 BK