TY - JOUR
AU - Gordon, David
AB - 378 BOOK REVIEWS Chiang Mai University, Thailand Nahum Bnw Advance Access Publication th May https://doi.org/ .1093 /pq/pqad058 C The Author(s) . Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell.E By Ma Byleo and Evgenia Mylonaki . (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, .Pp. .Price $ .00 .) John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of his thought has been underestimated by many of his readers because they have not realised its unity. ‘Although the topics on which he has written are diverse, there is an evident common thread running through McDowell’s work, namely, its overarching concern with the transformative significance that reason has for human lives, and with the question of how this significance can be understood without simply disregarding the fact that we are no more than natural beings, whose capacities for free thought and action must be understood as rooted in our animal nature‘ (p. 2 ). After an introduction by the 
TI - Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell
JF - The Philosophical Quarterly
DO - 10.1093/pq/pqad066
DA - 2023-06-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reason-in-nature-new-essays-on-themes-from-john-mcdowell-6LIYPRfnDB
SP - 378
EP - 380
VL - 74
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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