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Philosophical work

Plato Theaetetus Donald Davidson Natural language Gareth Evans

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Life and career

Boksburg South Africa University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland New College Oxford University

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Cambridge Mass.Harvard University Press Mark Platts A. W. Moore

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Philosopher Fellow University College, Oxford University of Pittsburgh Metaphysics

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Education: University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (as issued by University of London) New College, Oxford
Born: John Henry McDowell (1942-03-07) 7 March 1942 (age 84) Boksburg, Union of South Africa
Doctoral students: Anita Avramides, Alice Crary
Era: 20th-century philosophy
Main interests: Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics
Notable ideas: Perceptual conceptualism, naturalized Platonism, moral particularism, disjunctivism, minimal empiricism

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John McDowell → Action, Aesthetic Value, African Classical Associations, Albany, Altham, Amsterdam, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Analytical Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Thought, Another Plea, Anti-Realism, Anti-Theory, Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Aristotle, Aristotle's Ethics, Aristotle's Moral Psychology, Aufsätze, Axel Honneth

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John McDowell → Acumen Publishing, An Examination, Anne Le Goff, Ashgate, Autour, Being-in-the-World, Blackwell, Boyle, Brandom, Cambridge, Christophe Al-Saleh, Concept, Content, Critique, Cynthia MacDonald, Dingli, Evgenia Mylonaki, Experience, Gaskin, Gaynesford

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John McDowell → Mind, Philosophy, PittsburghSummary, University, World

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John McDowell → John Henry McDowell (1942-03-07) 7 March 1942 (age 84) Boksburg, Union of South Africa

Doctoral students · 1

John McDowell → Anita Avramides, Alice Crary

Education · 1

John McDowell → University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (as issued by University of London) New College, Oxford

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John McDowell → 20th-century philosophy

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John McDowell → Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics

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John McDowell → Perceptual conceptualism, naturalized Platonism, moral particularism, disjunctivism, minimal empiricism

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John McDowell → Sebastian Rödl

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John McDowell	Notable students	Sebastian Rödl	1.00	infobox
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John McDowell	School	Postanalytic philosophy Pittsburgh School (analytic Hegelianism) Direct realism The New Wittgenstein Aristotelian ethics	1.00	infobox
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