Abstract

CRELIER, Andrés. Animals between Mind and World: McDowell´s Philosophy and the Re-Enchantment of Nature. Anal. filos. [online]. 2018, vol.38, n.1, pp.57-82. ISSN 1851-9636.

The paper discusses the philosophy of John McDowell in relation to the recent research in animal cognition. Firstly, it introduces the liberal or relaxed naturalism put forward by this author in Mind and World, taking into account the threshold of the modern natural sciences and the way McDowell places “mere animals” in nature. Secondly, it features two problems of this proposal: its unstable character and the fact that non-human animals do not have a proper place in it -at least from the viewpoint of cognitive ethology. Thirdly, it argues that these problems do not arise if one considers that nature is re-enchanted by the recent ethology itself.

Keywords : John McDowell; Second Nature; Cognitive Ethology.

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