Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell, edited by Boyle Matthew and Mylonaki Evgenia

Abstract

As is well-explained in the outstanding introduction, the idea animating the book is that we are rational animals, such that our rationality constitutively shapes the fundamental kind of animal we are. In turn, our distinctively rational form of animality shapes many of our most significant attributes. Even where we share generic forms of such attributes with other, non-rational animals, the specific forms that we instance are as they are because of our distinctive form of animality: