John McDowell b. 1942
John McDowell (born 1942) is a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
John McDowell is a South African-born British philosopher, the University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most influential figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. His Mind and World (1994), based on the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, sought to dissolve the dilemma between the Myth of the Given and a coherentism cut off from reality by arguing that conceptual capacities are passively drawn into operation in perceptual experience itself. McDowell has also done major work on Plato and Aristotle, on Wittgenstein and Sellars, on moral realism and second nature, and on the relation between rationality, freedom, and the natural world. His position, often described as a form of philosophical quietism, prefers to dissolve rather than solve many traditional philosophical problems.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
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- John McDowell is a South African-born British philosopher, the University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most influential figures in contemporary analytic philosophy.