John Henry McDowell (born 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy and metaethics, his most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. McDowell understands philosophy as therapeutic, aiming, in Ludwig Wittgenstein's phrase, to leave everything as it is, a form of philosophical quietism that offers redescriptions of confusing cases rather than explanatory theories of how thought and language relate to the world. He has defended a form of Aristotelian naturalism, drawing on Hegel and Wittgenstein, against what he regards as an overly reductive scientistic naturalism common in contemporary philosophy. He was one of three recipients of the 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy.
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John Henry McDowell (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Born John Henry McDowell (1942-03-07) 7 March 1942 (age 84) Boksburg, Union of South Africa
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McDowell delivered the John Locke Lectures in Philosophy at Oxford University in 1991 (these became his book Mind and World.)
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Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh School (analytic Hegelianism)
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John Henry McDowell (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
In Branch: Epistemology, Infobox: main_interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
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Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
In Branch: Philosophy of Language, Infobox: main_interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
In Branch: Philosophy of Mathematics, Infobox: main_interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
In Branch: Philosophy of Mind, Infobox: main_interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
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Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
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Postanalytic philosophy Pittsburgh School (analytic Hegelianism) Direct realism The New Wittgenstein Aristotelian ethics
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