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<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>Introduction ix</p> <p><b>1 Austerity and Openness 1<br /> </b><i>R. M. Sainsbury</i></p> <p>Response to Sainsbury 14<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>2 Reason and Language 22<br /> </b><i>Richard G. Heck, Jr.</i></p> <p>Response to Heck 45<b><br /> </b><i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>3 Some Philosophical Integrations 50 <br /> </b><i>Akeel Bilgrami</i></p> <p>Response to Bilgrami 66<b><br /> </b><i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>4 Self-Knowledge and Inner Space 73<br /> </b><i>CYNTHIA MacDONALD</i></p> <p>Response to Macdonald 89<b><br /> </b><i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>5 Personal Identity, Ethical not Metaphysical 95<br /> </b><i>Carol Rovane</i></p> <p>Response to Rovane 114<i><br /> JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>6 Acting in the Light of the Appearances 121<br /> </b><i>Jonathan Dancy</i></p> <p>Response to Dancy 134<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>7 External Reasons 142<br /> </b><i>Philip Pettit and Michael Smith</i></p> <p>Response to Pettit and Smith 170<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>8 Aristotle’s Use of Prudential Concepts 180<br /> </b><i>T. H. Irwin</i></p> <p>Response to Irwin 198<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>9 Julius Caesar and George Berkeley Play Leapfrog 203<br /> </b><i>Simon Blackburn</i></p> <p>Response to Blackburn 217<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p><b>10 The Two Natures: Another Dogma? 222<br /> </b><i>GRAHAM MacDONALD</i></p> <p>Response to Macdonald 235<br /> <i>JOHN McDOWELL</i></p> <p>Index 240</p>

"This is an excellent collection of essays on the wide-ranging work of one of the most significant and original philosophers of our day. They raise some fundamental questions about McDowell's views on a variety of topics, to which his own exemplary responses provide extremely valuable further elaboration and development of his thought." <i>Bill Brewer, University of Warwick</i> <br /> <p>"A very welcome addition to the ‘Philosophers and their Critics’ series: there is much to be learnt from the interplay between the ten contributors’ probing papers and McDowell’s responses to them." <i>Jennifer Hornsby, Birkbeck College</i></p>

<b>Cynthia Macdonald</b> is Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her previous publications include <i>Mind–Body Identity Theories</i> (1989), <i>Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics</i> (Blackwell, 2005), and she is co-editor, with Stephen Laurence, of <i>Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics</i> (Blackwell, 1998).<br /> <p><b>Graham Macdonald</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Distinguished International Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen’s University Belfast. He is co-author, with Philip Pettit, of <i>Semantics and Social Science</i> (1980). In addition, he is editor of <i>Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A. J. Ayer, with His Replies to Them</i> (1979), co-editor, with Crispin Wright, of <i>Fact, Science, and Morality</i> (Blackwell, 1986), and co-editor, with Philip Catton, of <i>Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals</i> (2004).<br /> </p> <p>Together, they have edited <i>Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation</i> and <i>Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation</i> (both Blackwell, 1995).<br /> <br /> </p> <p><br /> <br /> </p>

John McDowell’s work has had an immense and lasting influence on philosophical thought. This volume contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished philosophers on McDowell’s work, along with substantial replies to each by McDowell himself. The essays cover the full range of McDowell’s seminal contributions in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, and epistemology. Together, they offer by far the most comprehensive discussion of his work currently available.<br /> <p>Contributors are: Akeel Bilgrami, Simon Blackburn, Jonathan Dancy, Richard G. Heck, Jr., T. H. Irwin, Cynthia Macdonald, Graham Macdonald, Philip Pettit, Carol Rovane, R. M. Sainsbury, and Michael Smith.</p>

"This is an excellent collection of essays on the wide-ranging work of one of the most significant and original philosophers of our day. They raise some fundamental questions about McDowell's views on a variety of topics, to which his own exemplary responses provide extremely valuable further elaboration and development of his thought." <i>Bill Brewer, University of Warwick</i> <br /> <p>"A very welcome addition to the ‘Philosophers and their Critics’ series: there is much to be learnt from the interplay between the ten contributors’ probing papers and McDowell’s responses to them." <i>Jennifer Hornsby, Birkbeck College</i></p>

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