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Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell by Matthew Boyle

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A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell's arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural.

John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world's most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy. A common thread running through McDowell's diverse contributions has been his critique of a form of reductive naturalism according to which human minds must be governed by laws essentially similar to those that govern the rest of nature. Against this widely accepted view, McDowell maintains that human minds should be seen as "transformed" by reason in such a way that the principles governing our minds, while not supernatural, are in an important sense sui generis.

Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki assemble a group of distinguished philosophers to clarify and criticize McDowell's core position and explore its repercussions for contemporary debates about metaphysics and epistemology, perception, language, action, and value. The essays here scrutinize the core idea that human reason constitutes a second nature, emerging from humanity's basic animal nature, and reflect on the underpinnings of McDowell's claims in Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. Many of the contributors extend McDowell's views beyond his own articulations, elaborating the transformative role that reason plays in human experience.

In clarifying and expanding McDowell's insights, Reason in Nature challenges contemporary orthodoxy, much as McDowell himself has. And, as this collection makes clear, McDowell's unorthodox position is of enduring importance and has wide-ranging implications, still not fully appreciated, for ongoing philosophical debates.



About the Author
Matthew Boyle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Evgenia Mylonaki is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece.

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The essays in this volume lend support to the editors' aim of showing the unity of McDowell's thought. The book will be of great value for those seeking to understand and develop further the philosophy of one of the foremost thinkers of our day. -- David Gordon * Philosophical Quarterly *
Superb...The very high quality of discussion is a testament not only to the various authors' own insights and abilities but also to the value of the idea and its various actualisations in McDowell's work...I anticipate that his indirect influence will spread even further through careful engagement with this important collection. -- Guy Longworth * Mind *
This is an impressive collection of sophisticated essays-worthy of John McDowell, who is surely one of the most important and interesting philosophers of our time. -- Berislav Marusic, University of Edinburgh
This collection of essays in honor of John McDowell is superb. It both illuminates McDowell's own work in new ways and suggests intriguing, very fruitful directions for future research. The excellent essays are held together by the editors' outstanding introduction, which provides a framework for pursuing underlying interconnections among the essays themselves, and in McDowell's own approach to the rich assortment of topics they tackle. -- Naomi Elian, University of Warwick
A stellar group of philosophers who have long engaged with his work explore the wellsprings of McDowell's deep and subtle thought, and the common themes, perspectives, and strategies that tie together his insights across the many dimensions of human experience he addresses. Indispensable. -- Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh



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ISBN 9780674241046
Author Matthew Boyle
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Harvard University Press
Publisher Harvard University Press

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