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John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, nature, and meta-ethics, McDowell's most influential work has been in the ...
John McDowell (n. 1942) es un filósofo sudafricano. Biografía. Los primeros trabajos de McDowell fueron influidos por Donald Davidson y se opuso a las opiniones de Michael Dummett y Crispin Wright sobre el problema de la comprensión lingüística.
En este artículo contrastaré la propuesta conceptualista estándar que McDowell defendió en Mente y Mundo con su actual teoría conceptualista que distingue entre dos clases de contenido: el contenido intuitivo no proposicional de la experiencia perceptual y el contenido proposicional discursivo de nuestras creencias empíricas.
¿Cómo podría ejercer la realidad un control racional sobre la libertad y la espontaneidad que se actualizan en el pensamiento? McDowell sostiene que no se pueden imponer límites externos al reino de lo conceptual, pues ¿de dónde procederían éstos?
John McDowell is a distinguished philosopher who teaches and researches in various fields, such as Greek philosophy, philosophy of language, and ethics. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has published several books and articles on philosophy.
29 de sept. de 2015 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of John McDowell, a philosopher who draws on Wittgenstein, Davidson, Kant, and Hegel. Find books, articles, and reviews on his main themes, such as meaning, intentionality, and experience.
26 de jun. de 2023 · John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of his thought has been underestimated by many of his readers because they have not realised its unity.
