Mind, Value, and Reality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDowell, John.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Summary:

This book collects some of McDowell's most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle's and Plato's ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Part I. Greek Ethics

Chapter 1. The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics

Chapter 2. Some Issues in Aristotle's Moral Psychology

Chapter 3. Virtue and Reason

Part II. Reason, Value, and Reality

Chapter 4. Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?

Chapter 5. Might There Be External Reasons?

Chapter 6. Aesthetic Value, Objectivity, and the Fabric of the World

Chapter 7. Values and Secondary Qualities

Chapter 8. Projection and Truth in Ethics

Chapter 9. Two Sorts of Naturalism

Chapter 10. Non-Cognitivism and Rule-Following

Part III. Issues in Wittgenstein

Chapter 11. Wittgenstein on Following a Rule

Chapter 12. Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy

Chapter 13. One Strand in the Private Language Argument

Chapter 14. Intentionality and Interiority in Wittgenstein

Part IV. Mind and Self

Chapter 15. Functionalism and Anomalous Monism

Chapter 16. The Content of Perceptual Experience

Chapter 17. Reductionism and the First Person

Bibliography

Credits

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-26592-0

OCLC:

1535965037