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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. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, nature, and meta-ethics, McDowell's most influential work has been in the philosophy…
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TTTA extracted 447 structured relationships around John McDowell. Examples in this analysis include John McDowell → Born → John Henry McDowell (1942-03-07) 7 March 1942 (age 84) Boksburg, Union of South Africa and John McDowell → Doctoral students → Anita Avramides, Alice Crary. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John McDowell | Born | John Henry McDowell (1942-03-07) 7 March 1942 (age 84) Boksburg, Union of South Africa | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Doctoral students | Anita Avramides, Alice Crary | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Education | University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (as issued by University of London) New College, Oxford | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Era | 20th-century philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Main interests | Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, ethics, meta-ethics | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Notable ideas | Perceptual conceptualism, naturalized Platonism, moral particularism, disjunctivism, minimal empiricism | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Notable students | Sebastian Rödl | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | Region | Western philosophy | 1.00 | infobox |
| John McDowell | School | Postanalytic philosophy Pittsburgh School (analytic Hegelianism) Direct realism The New Wittgenstein Aristotelian ethics | 1.00 | infobox |
| to make manifest the presence of objects to observers | instance of | experience can be | 0.80 | text |
| physics | instance of | by a mature science | 0.80 | text |
| John McDowell | related to External links | Philosophy | 0.60 | section |
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Source: Wikipedia — John McDowell · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout