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Alternative Conceptual Schemes
Animal Kingdom
Author_Sandra M. Dingli
Bald Naturalism
Category=QDTK
claim
conceptual content analysis
Davidson's Views
Davidson’s Views
De Gaynesford
Demonstrative Concepts
dissolving mind world dualisms
empiricism critique
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eq_nobargain
Hegel's Completion
Hegel’s Completion
Kantian epistemology
McDowell's Claim
McDowell's Ideas
McDowell's Interpretation
McDowell's Mind
McDowell's Picture
McDowell's Position
McDowell's View
McDowell’s Claim
McDowell’s Ideas
McDowell’s Interpretation
McDowell’s Mind
McDowell’s Picture
McDowell’s Position
McDowell’s View
Minimal Empiricism
Non-conceptual Content
Non-conceptual Elements
Non-human Animals
Nonconceptual Content
Nonhuman Animal
Philosophical Anxiety
philosophical quietism
philosophy of perception
position
realism versus anti-realism
Scheme Content Distinction
Scheme Content Dualism
Verification Transcendent Truth Conditions
Wittgenstein's Quietism
Wittgenstein’s Quietism
Product details
- ISBN 9781138275669
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. Yet McDowell's ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book Sandra Dingli both elaborates and simplifies McDowell's ideas in order to give greater clarity to them and to assist in the understanding and appreciation of his work. Dingli selects five particular contemporary philosophical topics which McDowell deals with and investigates in detail the implications of particular points of view, analysing the current literature on each topic and drawing out shortcomings and possibilities for overcoming them. This work is, then, both a critique and complement to McDowell's text. McDowell's project is to dissolve a number of dualisms such as sensibility and understanding, conceptual and non conceptual content, scheme and content, and reason and nature. Dingli critically analyses each of these and claims that a proper understanding of the philosophical method of quietism is important for a correct understanding of this text, concluding that McDowell does not go far enough in his attempt to attain peace for philosophy as traditional dichotomies such as that of realism and anti-realism still appear to exert a grip on his thinking.
Dr Sandra M. Dingli is from The Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking at the University of Malta, Malta.
