2nd Edition

John McDowell

By Tim Thornton Copyright 2019
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years. His engagement with a philosophy of language, mind and ethics and with philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Hegel and Gadamer make him one of the most original and outstanding philosophical thinkers of the post-war period. In this clear and engaging book, Tim Thornton introduces and examines the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Wittgenstein on philosophy, normativity and understanding

2. Value judgements

3. Formal theories of meaning and theories of sense

4. Singular thought and the Cartesian picture of mind

5. Experience, knowledge and openness to the world

6. Mind and World and perceptual experience

7. Action, intention and embodied coping

8. Perceptual content after Mind and World

9. Guide to further reading.

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Biography

Tim Thornton is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the author of Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry (2007), Wittgenstein on Language and Thought (1998), co-author of the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2006) and Tacit Knowledge (2013), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2013).