When I was a college senior at the Catholic University of America and preparing to depart the comforts of the Catholic intellectual tradition for a career in mainstream “analytic” philosophy, I was sent out the door with a steady stream of warnings about the unhistorical character of the philosophical thinking I was about to encounter. I nodded and agreed that I would need (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
The Thinking Animal
The Engaged IntellectPhilosophical EssaysJohn McDowellHarvard University Press, $45, 360 pp.Having the World in ViewEssays on Kant, Hegel, and SellarsJohn McDowellHarvard University Press, $39.95, 304 pp.
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