John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years. His engagement with a philosophy of language, mind and ethics and with philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Hegel and Gadamer make him one of the most original and outstanding philosophical thinkers of the post-war period.
In this clear and engaging book, Tim Thornton introduces and examines the full range of McDowell''s thought. After a helpful introduction setting out McDowell''s general view of philosophy, Thornton introduces and explains the following topics:
- Wittgenstein on philosophy, normativity and understanding;
- value judgements;
- theories of meaning and sense;
- singular thought and Cartesianism;
- perceptual experience and knowledge, disjunctivism and openness to the world;
- Mind and World, the content of perceptual experience and idealism;
- action and the debate with Hubert Dreyfus
