What Can Philosophy Tell Us About How History Made the Mind?

In The Formation of Reason. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 1–23 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: What Role for Philosophy? Wittgenstein and Davidson Wittgenstein and Davidson Contrasted McDowell The Idea of Bildung Understanding the Bildungsprozess The Conceptual and the Practical Conclusion.

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philosophy, and what it can tell us about ‐ how history made the mind   what degree, we owe our human psychological powers ‐ to history, society and culture, and our relatedness to others, a precondition of our mindedness   human mind, essentially ‘socio‐cultural’ ‐ or ‘socio‐historical’ phenomenon   human beings, ‘socially constituted beings’ ‐ a leitmotif of incorrigibly feeble‐minded   role for philosophy ‐ socio‐historical character of mind ‐ which philosophy illuminates   Russians, resisting idea of making a speculative intervention ‐ in nature–nurture debate   philosophical Investigations, the ‘private language argument’ ‐ and ‘rule‐following considerations’   Davidson's and Wittgenstein's positions, appearing complementary ‐ their combined authority, to acknowledge social character of mind   Wittgenstein and Davidson contrasted   Bildungsprozess, and McDowell ‐ that philosophy cannot pretend to discover facts about human development, by a priori means

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