Thesis
McDowell's oscillation, objectivity and rationality
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Mind and World is written in a Wittgensteinian spirit. It is a work whose aim is to address a specific philosophical discomfort. John McDowell diagnoses a tension between the urge for what he describes as 'minimal empiricism' and its apparent impossibility. Minimal empiricism is defined as the idea that constraint is exercised on our thought by the world through experience. In his view, minimal empiricism stands in tension with the fact that conceptually unstructured impressions ...
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- Publication date:
- 2010
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Source identifiers:
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602730098
- Deposit date:
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2014-04-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Stephanie Garner
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky.
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