University of Sussex
Browse
1/1
3 files

The question of idealism in McDowell

journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-07, 23:16 authored by Michael Morris
John McDowell has attempted to defend himself against the charge that the view presented in his influential book Mind and World is idealist. This paper argues that in spite of that defence, there is a clear way in which the view does depend on a form of idealism. McDowell is committed to the thought that the world is ‘conceptually organized’. I consider what this means, and argue that, although it does not formally imply idealism, it is only defensible from a broadly idealist view—one which is in fact in tension with important claims made by McDowell in other works.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Philosophical Topics

ISSN

0276-2080

Publisher

University of Arkansas Department of Philosophy

Issue

1

Volume

37

Page range

95-114

Department affiliated with

  • Philosophy Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC