1st Edition
McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition
Preface John McDowell
Introduction Thomas J. Spiegel and Daniel Martin Feige
1. The Quiet Hermeneutics of John McDowell Sabina Lovibond
2. On Recognizing and Bridging the Gap between “Analytic” and “Continental” Philosophy Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
3. Precariousness and the Situated Space of Reasons Shaun Gallagher
4. McDowell’s Theory of Perceptual Experience and the Rapprochement between Hermeneutics and Cognitive Sciences Nadja El Kassar
5. Liberalizing Second Nature: McDowell, Dilthey, and the Sociality of Reason Eric S. Nelson
6. Second Nature, Hermeneutics, and Objective Spirit Thomas J. Spiegel
7. Gadamer According to McDowell, McDowell According to Gadamer: A Meditation on Some Common Themes Sebastian Luft
8. Indeterminate Life: Themes of a Hermeneutical Anthropology in Gadamer and McDowell Daniel Martin Feige
9. Coming Full Circle: Experience, Tradition, and Critique in Gadamer and McDowell David Lauer
10. McDowell and the Hermeneutic Approach to the History of Philosophy Yael Gazit
11. The Fragility of Reflection and the Spectrum of Nature: McDowell, Brandom, and the Debate between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory Italo Testa
Biography
Daniel Martin Feige is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. His research focuses on topics in philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology in their relation to topics in theoretical and practical philosophy. His latest book is Die Natur des Menschen: Eine dialektische Anthropologie (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2022).
Thomas J. Spiegel is Humboldt/JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University. He studied philosophy in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Pittsburgh, and Leipzig. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Leipzig under the supervision of Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer and Robert Brandom.
