McDowell, John Henry

Theaetetus by Plato ( Book )
20 editions published between 1973 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 926 libraries worldwide

Truth and meaning : essays in semantics ( Book )
11 editions published between 1976 and 2005 in English and held by 745 libraries worldwide

Mind and world by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
12 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 546 libraries worldwide
Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.

The varieties of reference by Gareth Evans ( Book )
8 editions published between 1982 and 2002 in English and held by 538 libraries worldwide

Mind, value, and reality by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
11 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in English and German and held by 499 libraries worldwide
"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject, thought, and context ( Book )
4 editions published in 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 463 libraries worldwide

Meaning, knowledge, and reality by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
7 editions published between 1998 and 2001 in English and held by 462 libraries worldwide

Having the world in view : essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
4 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 395 libraries worldwide
"A crucial moment came in the developing split between Anglo-American and continental European philosophers when G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell rebelled against the "Hegelianism" of their teachers and inaugurated the tradition of "analytic" philosophy. In this new book, John McDowell builds on his much discussed Mind and World - one of the most highly regarded books in contemporary philosophy. McDowell, who has long commanded attention for his fresh approach to issues in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, shocked some mainstream analytic philosophers in Mind and World by drawing inspiration not only from analytic philosophers but also from continental philosophers, most notably Hegel." "McDowell argues that the roots of some problems plaguing contemporary philosophy can be found in issues that were first discerned by Kant, and that the best way to get a handle on them is to follow those issues as they are reshaped in the writings of Hegel and Sellars. Having the World in View will be a decisive further step toward healing the divisions in contemporary philosophy, by showing how central methods of the two traditions remain deeply entangled and by revealing how philosophers in both camps might still learn from each other."--Jacket.

The engaged intellect : philosophical essays by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
4 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 331 libraries worldwide
"The Engaged Intellect collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological. It is typical of McDowell to represent his own best insights either as already to be found in the writings of his heroes (Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Sellars) or as inevitably emerging from a charitable modification of the views of those (such as Anscombe, Sellars, Davidson, Evans, Rorty, Dreyfus, and Brandom) subjected here to criticism. McDowell therefore develops his own philosophical picture in these pages through a method of indirection. The method is one of intervening in a philosophical dialectic at a characteristic juncture - in which it is difficult to avoid the feeling that further progress is required. McDowell shows how progress is to be achieved by preserving what is most attractive in the views of those he is in conversation with, while whittling away their weaknesses. As he practices this method, what emerges through the volume is the unity of McDowell's own views. The combination of philosophical breadth with dialectical depth - of intricate argumentative detail with overall philosophical coherence - marks McDowell as one of the most compelling philosophers of our time."--BOOK JACKET.

Mind and world : with a new introduction by John Henry McDowell ( Book )
7 editions published between 1996 and 2003 in English and held by 182 libraries worldwide