Response to McDowell.

The article discusses John McDowell's central mentalist notions, conceptuality and mindedness. Conceptuality when applied to everyday living means that we tend to use an equipment based on its usefulness to a specific task not by the physical properties it has such as weight or color. It is the proc...

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Published in:Inquiry Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 371 - 378
Main Author: Dreyfus, HubertL.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2007
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