(P/B) MIND, VALUE, AND REALITY

Παρουσίαση

This volume collects some of John McDowell's influential papers, written at various times over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgenstein's difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech. (From the publisher)

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Preface
I. Greek Ethics
1. The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics
2. Some Issues in Aristotle's Moral Psychology
3. Virtue and Reason
II. Reason, Value, and Reality
4. Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?
5. Might There Be External Reasons?
6. Aesthetic Value, Objectivity, and the Fabric of the World
7. Values and Secondary Qualities
8. Projection and Truth in Ethics
9. Two Sorts of Naturalism
10. Non-Cognitivism and Rule-Following
III. Issues in Wittgenstein
11. Wittgenstein on Following a Rule
12. Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
13. One Strand in the Private Language Argument
14. Intentionality and Interiority in Wittgenstein
IV. Mind and Self
15. Functionalism and Anomalous Monism
16. The Content of Perceptual Experience
17. Reductionism and the First Person
Bibliography
Credits
Index