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Full Idea
The logical space of reasons is just part of the logical space of nature. ...And, in a Kantian slogan, the space of reasons is the realm of freedom.
Gist of Idea
The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom
Source
John McDowell (Mind and World [1994], Intro 7)
Book Ref
McDowell,John: 'Mind and World' [Harvard 1996], p.-9
A Reaction
[second half on p.5] This is a modern have-your-cake-and-eat-it view of which I am becoming very suspicious. The modern Kantians (Davidson, Nagel, McDowell) are struggling to naturalise free will, but it won't work. Just dump it!
| 8128 | Representation must be propositional if it can give reasons and be epistemological [McDowell, by Burge] |
| 19092 | There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth] |
| 8253 | Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell] |
| 8254 | Forming concepts by abstraction from the Given is private definition, which the Private Lang. Arg. attacks [McDowell] |
| 8251 | The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell] |