John McDowell

John McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature combines original essays by leading contemporary philosophers with point by point responses by McDowell himself to explore the central themes of one of the most innovative philosophers of our day. Provides original and critical essays examining McDowell’s reading and appropriation of Sellars, Kant, and Hegel in his own philosophy Explores McDowell’s notions of perceptual experience and his proposed rethinking of our conception of nature in light of the challenges that reason and normativity introduce Includes an original essay by McDowell that includes significant developments of his conception of perceptual experience Offers thorough and penetrating responses by McDowell to his critics

Contributors vii Introduction ix 1. Avoiding the Myth of the Given 1 John McDowell 2. Perception and Content 15 Bill Brewer 3. McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions 32 Willem A. deVries 4. Three Sorts of Naturalism 52 Hans Fink 5. Varieties of Nature in Hegel and McDowell 72 Christoph Halbig 6. Thought and Experience in Hegel and McDowell 92 Stephen Houlgate 7. Practical Reason and its Animal Precursors 112 Sabina Lovibond 8. Contemporary Epistemology: Kant, Hegel, McDowell 124 Kenneth R. Westphal 9. Science and Sensibility: McDowell and Sellars on Perceptual Experience 152 Michael Williams 10. Reason’s Reach 176 Charles Travis 11. Responses 200 John McDowell Index 269