Perception and Action - UChicago: Robert Pippin and James Conant
The course will be devoted to exploring and assessing John McDowell’s treatment of problems in the philosophy of perception and the possibility of a parallel treatment of problems in the philosophy of action. The course will also explore McDowell’s account of the historical antecedents of his treatment of these problems in Kant and Hegel, as well as a number of the particular views in recent analytic philosophy of perception and action with respect to which McDowell situates his own approach. An alternative title for the course might be “Everything You Need to Know to Understand McDowell’s Recent Work in the Philosophy of Action”.