ABSTRACT
Among other things, John McDowell’s Mind and World develops the anti-Cartesian philosophy of his work on singular thought. This philosophy involves a radical rejection of Descartes’s Real Distinction between mind and body:
The point of the conception of singular thought that I have been recommending is that it treats the Cartesian fear of loss [of the world] …not by trying to bridge a gulf between intentionality and objects… but by fundamentally undermining the picture of mind that generates the Cartesian divide.1
