Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell

384 Pages·2022·2.157 MB·English

by  Matthew Boyle, Evgenia Mylonaki

Reason in Nature

REASON IN NATURE
New Essays on Themes from
John McDowell
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Edited by
Matthew Boyle
and
Evgenia Mylonaki
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts
London, England
2022
Copyright © 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Amer i ca
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Boyle, Matthew, 1972– editor. | Mylonaki, Evgenia, 1978– editor.
Title: Reason in nature : new essays on themes from John McDowell /
edited by Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022006672 | ISBN 9780674241046 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: McDowell, John, 1942– | Philosophy of mind. |
Naturalism. | Reason.
Classification: LCC B1647.M144 R43 2022 | DDC 128—dc23/eng/20220512
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022006672
For our families: Rachel, Sylvia, and Tobias; Kostas and Markos

Contents
Introduction 1
Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki
I. Nature and “Second Nature”
1. Skepticism and Quietism about Meaning and Normativity 19
Hannah Ginsborg
2. Forms of Nature: “First,” “Second,” “Living,” “Rational,”
and “Phronetic” 40
Michael Thompson
II. Reason in Perception and Action
3. The Rational Role of Perceptual Content 83
Matthew Boyle
4. Resolute Disjunctivism 111
James Conant
5. Control and Knowledge in Action: Developing Some
Themes from McDowell 153
Markos Valaris
viii CoNTENTS
6. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Action 171
Jennifer Hornsby
III. Consequences for Metaphysics
7. Perceiving the World 193
Sebastian Rödl
8. Seeing the World: Moral Difficulty and Drama 217
Evgenia Mylonaki
IV. Historical Pre ce dents
9. See the Right Thing: “Paternal” Reason, Love, and Phronêsis 243
Jennifer Whiting
10. Self- Consciousness and the Idea of Bildung:
Hegel’s Radicalization of Kant 285
Andrea Kern
11. The Idealism in German Idealism 309
Robert Pippin
Notes 329
Acknowl edgments 375
Contributors 377
Index 379
Reason in Nature