ABSTRACT
John McDowell’s provocative Mind and World has been widely read and discussed since it first appeared in 1994. The book is dominated by McDowell’s attempt to find an acceptable answer to the Kantian-sounding question ‘How are spontaneity and receptivity related?’. According to McDowell, two opposite and equally unacceptable answers have dominated traditional epistemology, namely the respective answers given by foundationalists (or, more accurately, by proponents of the Given) and coherentists.
