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John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
John H. McDowell (MA, Oxford) is University Professor of Philosophy. Before coming to Pittsburgh in 1986, he taught at University College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Princeton University.
Jun 26, 2023 · John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of his thought has been underestimated by many of his readers because they have not realised its unity.
3 days ago · When John McDowell's Mind and World was published in 1994 it created great excitement in the world of philosophy. It was widely read and debated by professional philosophers and students alike.
Sep 29, 2015 · John McDowell was born in Boksburg, South Africa, in 1942 and educated at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and at New College Oxford. He was a fellow in philosophy at Oxford from 1966 to 1986 where much of his work drew on Greek philosophy, on broadly analytic philosophy of language and thought, and on Wittgenstein.
John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world’s most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy.
John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
