The Engaged Intellect

A new anthology of McDowell's Essays:

The Engaged Intellect

Table of Contents:

I. Ancient Philosophy

1. Falsehood and Not-Being in Plato’s Sophist
2. Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle’s Ethics
3. Deliberation and Moral Development in Aristotle
4. Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle

II. Issues in Wittgenstein

5. Are Meaning, Understanding, etc., Definite States?
6. How Not to Read Philosophical Investigations: Brandom’s Wittgenstein

III. Issues in Davidson

7. Scheme-Content Dualism and Empiricism
8. Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism
9. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective

IV. Reference, Objectivity, and Knowledge

10. Evans’s Frege
11. Referring to Oneself
12. Towards Rehabilitating Objectivity
13. The Disjunctive Conception of Experience as Material for a Transcendental Argument

V. Themes from Mind and World Revisited

14. Experiencing the World
15. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind

VI. Responses to Brandom and Dreyfus

16. Knowledge and the Internal Revisited
17. Motivating Inferentialism: Comments on Chapter 2 of Making It Explicit
18. What Myth?
19. Response to Dreyfus

• Biography
• Credits
• Index

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