ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an introduction to the issues, however, and offers some insight into John McDowell’s philosophy. Debate about whether McDowell does provide reason to shrug off scepticism has continued, and recent papers include C. Wright and Duncan Pritchard. McDowell has defended his epistemological disjunctivism against criticisms by Tyler Burge in an exchange of papers. In particular, Burge argues that McDowell’s disjunctivism implausibly places too great intellectual demands on perceiving subjects. There has been much critical work on McDowell’s Mind and World. Max de Gaynesford’s John McDowell is an introduction to McDowell’s work which takes Mind and World as its main focus. The debate between Hubert Dreyfus and McDowell is the focus of Joseph Schear’s edited collection Mind, Reason, and Being in the World. McDowell criticizes Gareth Evans’s account of non-conceptual content in part through the idea of demonstrative concepts.
