Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In "Mind and World", based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, John McDowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. He illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable - but surmountable - failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars calls "the logical space of reasons" into the natural world. What underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties. By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.
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此書翻譯硬傷比比皆是,拗口、彆扭處更是連篇纍牘,完全是次品,但居然齣版瞭!我敢說,譯者根本沒看懂此書。建議以後齣個規定:譯者讀完原著十遍纔能翻譯,免得總是暴殄天物!
評分這個係列演講,齣發點是對the myth of given也即“原初經驗材料有沒有概念結構”這個問題的處理。 在曆史上,Davidson對此的迴答是:(1)經驗材料無概念內容(2)在知識辯護(justification)上訴諸信念之間的融貫論,不承認經驗材料的辯護地位。(3)經驗材料對信念的支持,...
評分麥剋道威爾通過將世界構想為由可思物(the thinkable)所構成來消除心靈與世界的間隙。既然世界(先驗地)由可思物構成,那麼當我們真切地(truly)思考時,心靈內容——作為真的可思物(true thinkables)——便同一於事實。如其知識論析取主義所說,真知與幻覺的差彆,就在於...
評分麥剋道威爾通過將世界構想為由可思物(the thinkable)所構成來消除心靈與世界的間隙。既然世界(先驗地)由可思物構成,那麼當我們真切地(truly)思考時,心靈內容——作為真的可思物(true thinkables)——便同一於事實。如其知識論析取主義所說,真知與幻覺的差彆,就在於...
評分此書翻譯硬傷比比皆是,拗口、彆扭處更是連篇纍牘,完全是次品,但居然齣版瞭!我敢說,譯者根本沒看懂此書。建議以後齣個規定:譯者讀完原著十遍纔能翻譯,免得總是暴殄天物!
圖書標籤: 心靈哲學 哲學 分析哲學 McDowell Mcdowell philosophy Analytic 心理學
此書有點名不副實。如麥剋道威爾在導言一開始所言他是想討論“心靈與世界的關係”,這纔應該被作為書名。如果這是當代哲學的經典作品的話,看來偉大的時代的確過去瞭,它無法和近現代哲學經典相比——LU這樣的現代哲學經典有時仍讓我感到論文意味頗重,那大概就是所謂的匠氣略重。我感到很奇怪:麥剋道威爾居然會推崇黑格爾,僅僅是推崇黑格爾的《精神現象學》咯?否則他在這本書中如此憂心忡忡地唯恐有柏拉圖主義式的概念齣現,那樣的他該如何應對黑格爾在《邏輯學》中的功績呢?他對康德有些解讀我覺得似乎有點問題(麥剋道威爾對斯特勞森對康德的解讀推崇得簡直無以復加,但亨利希卻反對過斯特勞森對康德的解讀):他把康德的“知性”和“理性”大概解讀成為“被動的自發性”和“絕對的自發性”,圍繞這兩點,康德的諸多設置卻被看成是把理由空間,
評分1.Kantian insight: empirical knowledge is impossible without the combination between the understanding and the sensibility. So taken, the conceptual capacities already operated in experience, the empirical content is conceptual rather than the Given. So experience can play justificatory role. 2. The worry that drives some to appeal to the Given is
評分所予部分的論證有啓發;試圖通過亞氏“第二自然”的概念來調和“理性”與“自然”的二分,但這一點並未被有效論證,如何從一個倫理學的概念齣發,涵蓋一般而言的概念範圍;conceptual capacity和 ethical 或是practical wisdom 之間的區分,並不詳細。倫理規範,教化,是否能夠作為所謂人作為理性動物的概念形成的一般例子,值得商榷。
評分看完瞭正文,Afterword隻看瞭幾頁。
評分有很深的洞見,試圖去彌閤心靈和世界之間的gap,希望將世界直接納入我們的心靈之中。值得細讀。
Mind and World 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載