Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays

by John McDowell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725794
• ISBN13: 9780674725799
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"