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John Henry McDowell (born 1942) is a South African philosopher formerly a fellow of University College Oxford and now University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written extensively on metaphysics epistemology ancient philosophy and meta-ethics McDowell’s most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. McDowell was one of three recipients of the 2010 Andrew W.

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birth date
1942-01-01T00:00:00+02:00, 1942-03-07
birth place
Union of South Africa, South Africa, Boksburg
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced by
Aristotle, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Donald Davidson (philosopher), Gottlob Frege, Gareth Evans (philosopher), P. F. Strawson, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars, Philippa Foot
main interest
Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mathematics, Logic
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy

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