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McDowell, a philosophy professor at the University of Pittsburgh, was invited by the Harvard Review of Philosophy for the publication’s fifth annual lecture.
Autonomous individuals who can reason independently are responsible for analyzing and even criticizing existing belief structures, renowned philosopher John McDowell said in a lecture yesterday.
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McDowell—who contrasted humans, as reasoning beings, against animals—described the human characteristic of autonomy as the self-government of the mind and “the capacity of an individual to determine her thought or act for herself.”
“It’s not obvious to me that there’s any role for philosophy in a whole branch of academics, like biology,” McDowell said. “There are some systems that simply don’t use philosophy.?...