Mind, reason, and being-in-the-world: the McDowell-Dreyfus debate, edited by Joseph Schear

The debate between John McDowell and Hubert Dreyfus was prompted by Dreyfus’s 2005 American Philosophical Association Presidential Address (‘Overcoming the Myth of the Mental’, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 79 (2005), pp. 47–65) and continued with a set of responses and counter-responses in Inquiry. The two philosophers go head-to-head once more in this book and their debate is continued, contextualized, and broadened by thirteen original contributions — mostly from distinguished experts. The essays bring together topics in philosophy of perception, philosophy of action, phenomenology, history of philosophy, and philosophy of mind, and will reward the efforts of anyone interested in those areas.