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Divergent Intuitions: McDowell’s Kant and Sellars’ Kant
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Abstract
John McDowell’s Woodbridge Lectures constitute one of those remarkable documents that illustrate how serious philosophy draws on its own history. McDowell’s primary aim is to contrast his own account of intentionality— of “how thought and language are directed toward the world” (HWV, 471)— with one that he finds more or less explicitly framed and defended by Wilfrid Sellars, originally and influentially in “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”. This is not the first time that McDowell has attempted to articulate his differences with Sellars.
Title: Divergent Intuitions: McDowell’s Kant and Sellars’ Kant
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Abstract
John McDowell’s Woodbridge Lectures constitute one of those remarkable documents that illustrate how serious philosophy draws on its own history.
McDowell’s primary aim is to contrast his own account of intentionality— of “how thought and language are directed toward the world” (HWV, 471)— with one that he finds more or less explicitly framed and defended by Wilfrid Sellars, originally and influentially in “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”.
This is not the first time that McDowell has attempted to articulate his differences with Sellars.
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