About the Author

John McDowell studied at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and at New College, Oxford. After teaching at University College, Oxford from 1966-1986, Professor McDowell joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Pittsburg, where he has taught since then. His research and teaching fields include Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics. He has translated Platos Theaetetus for the Clarendon Plato Series (Oxford University Press, 1973), and authored Mind and World (Harvard University Press, 1994). His essays have been collected in several volumes: Mind, Value, and Reality (Harvard University Press, 1998), Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality (Harvard University Press, 1998), Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars (Harvard University Press, 2009), and The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays (Harvard University Press, 2009).