Reply to McDowell and Chapman

McDowell, Sellars, and Sense Impressions

One of John McDowell’s central concerns is to understand the relation between mind and world, to understand intentionality. McDowell believes that ‘that there is no better way for us to approach an understanding of intentionality than by working toward understanding Kant’ (McDowell 1998: 432). McDowell also believes that this conviction is shared by Wilfrid Sellars and that ‘coming to terms wit...

Response to Landis and Chapman (2011).

Congratulations to the authors for their concise summary of the flaws, frailties, and limitations of ANOVA-based toxicity metrics. Having made similar calls for a transition to model-based inference, I am naturally fully supportive of the Landis and Chapman ‘‘fatwa’’ on bankrupt statistical methods in ecotoxicology. This timely article should, and no doubt will, generate much discussion among e...

Fletcher H. McDowell 1923-2017.

Fletcher H. McDowell, MD, died at his home in New York City on April 23, 2017. He was 93 years old. Fletcher graduated from Dartmouth College and then from Cornell Medical School in 1947. He continued training in medicine there and at Stanford, returning to neurology residency with Harold Wolff at Cornell. He then joined the Army Medical Corps and was chief of neurology at army hospitals in Bad...

McDowell on Reasons, Externalism and Scepticism

This formulation of content externalism is very weak, in that most content externalists will want to be more robust—and, of course, more specific—in their construal of the role that environmental factors can play in determining the content of mental states, and will typically take environmental factors to be relevant to the determination of the content of just about any mental state. Neverthele...

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