John McDowell Quotes

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. The quotes below are attributed to John McDowell, organized by topic.