On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

Tony Bologna

A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic. @KMaca5

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On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

Episodes (61)

Mar 24, 2023 John McDowell Part 3: Nothing Human is Artificial Or Everything We Do Is Nature
Jan 28, 2023 John McDowell Part 2: Squinting to Get a Glimpse of the Real World
Dec 12, 2022 Mind and World Part 1: The Active and Passive in John McDowell

On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

Mar 24, 2023
22¾ minutes
19 MB

In this final episode of a three part series on John McDowell's Mind and World, I take a look at McDowell's Transcendental Argument. I feel his transcendental argument comes up a bit short in making McDowell's case and neither does it seem to hold the same gravitas as other transcendental arguments like Kant's. Basically, the conclusions sound a lot like the premises. But, McDowell makes another interesting claim namely that there is nothing unnatural about our role as conceptualizers and judgement-makers in carving out the epistemic content of our worldviews. Our normative nature is, well, natural. Natural to us...

On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

John McDowell Part 3: Nothing Human is Artificial Or Everything We Do Is Nature

Tony Bologna

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