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Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World

The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate

Edited by Joseph Schear

To Be Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge – 272 pages

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    Description

    John McDowell and Hubert Dreyfus are philosophers of world renown whose work has done much to shape the fields of analytic philosophy and phenomenology respectively. Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate opens with their debate over one of the most important and controversial subjects in philosophy: is perceptual experience permeated with rationality and reflectiveness, or is perception fundamentally unreflective and bodily; something prior to rationality? They provide a fascinating insight into some fundamental differences between analytic philosophy and phenomenology as well as areas where they may have something in common.

    Fourteen specially commissioned chapters by distinguished international contributors enrich the debate inaugurated by McDowell and Dreyfus, taking it in a number of different and important directions. Fundamental philosophical problems discussed include: the embodied mind, subjectivity and self-consciousness, intentionality, rationality, and human agency. With the addition of these outstanding contributions, Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World should be considered essential reading for students and scholars of analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

    Contents

    Introduction Joseph Schear 1. The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental Hubert Dreyfus 2. What Myth? John McDowell 3. An Expert’s Reflections Barbara Montero 4. On Over-intellectualizing the Mind Alva Noe 5. Space, Perspective, and the Abstraction Condition Susanna Schellenberg 6. The Given Tim Crane 7. Intelligence in Action James Conant 8. Detectivism and the Inner Light Dan Zahavi 9. Heidegger, Consciousness, Content, and Care Robert Pippin 10. What is the phenomenon of conceptual articulation? Joseph Rouse 11. Conceptualism and the Scholastic Fallacy Taylor Carman 12. The Charge of Intellectualism: Dreyfus, McDowell, and Merleau-Ponty Charles Siewert 13. Retrieving Realism Charles Taylor 14. Kant’s Transcendental Deduction, Phenomenology, and the Philosophy of Mind Sebastian Gardner 15. Never Mind: Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell debate Lee Braver 16. The Exclusion of the Mediational from the Rational and the Thoughtful in both Dreyfus and McDowell Adrian Cussins 17. Rationality and Self-Consciousness Joseph Schear. Index

    Name: Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: Edited by Joseph Schear. John McDowell and Hubert Dreyfus are philosophers of world renown whose work has done much to shape the fields of analytic philosophy and phenomenology respectively. Mind, Reason and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate opens with their debate...
    Categories: History of Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind