McDowell and Hegel: Perceptual Experience, Thought and Action

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This book presents a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the relationship between the thought of G.W.F. Hegel and that of John McDowell, the latter of whom is widely considered to be one of the most influential living analytic philosophers. It serves as a point of entry in McDowell’s and Hegel’s philosophy, and a substantial contribution to ongoing debates on perceptual experience and perceptual justification, naturalism, human freedom and action. The chapters gathered in this volume, as well as McDowell’s responses, make it clear that McDowell’s work paves the way for an original reading of Hegel’s texts. His conceptual framework allows for new interpretive possibilities in Hegel’s philosophy which, until now, have remained largely unexplored. Moreover, these interpretations shed light on various aspects of continuity and discontinuity between the philosophies of these two authors, thus defining more clearly their positions on specific issues. In addition, they allow us to see Hegel’s thought as containing a number of conceptual tools that might be useful for advancing McDowell’s own philosophy and contemporary philosophy in general. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv McDowell and Hegel: An Introduction (Federico Sanguinetti, André J. Abath)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 What Is the Phenomenology About? (John McDowell)....Pages 29-40 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 McDowell, Hegel and Allison’s Reading of Kant (Tom Rockmore)....Pages 43-55 Contextualism and Perceptive Experience: Reading Kant and Hegel through McDowell (Erick Lima)....Pages 57-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Hegel, McDowell, and Perceptual Experience: A Response to John McDowell (Stephen Houlgate)....Pages 79-96 Senses and Sensations: On Hegel’s Later Account of Perceptual Experience (Luca Corti)....Pages 97-116 Hegel and McDowell on Perceptual Experience and Judgment (Paul Redding)....Pages 117-131 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 Hegel and McDowell on the “Unboundedness of the Conceptual” (Federico Sanguinetti)....Pages 135-153 Objectivity and Subjectivity in Hegel and McDowell (Michela Bordignon)....Pages 155-174 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 A Second Naturalization for a Second Nature (Ernesto Perini-Santos)....Pages 177-192 Forms of Naturalism: McDowell and Hegel on the Meanings of Nature, Mind, and Spirit (Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer)....Pages 193-210 Reason in Action. A Response to McDowell on Hegel (Robert Pippin)....Pages 211-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Responses (John McDowell)....Pages 231-258 Back Matter ....Pages 259-273