Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 18
Definition "blunt naturalism"/McDowell: refuses to acknowledge that the relationships that constitute the logical space of the reasons are not natural.
>Space of reasons.
I 92
Definition "blunt naturalism"/McDowell: denies that the spontaneity of the mind is sui generis.
The blunt naturalism aims to place the conceptual abilities in nature, presented as the realm of natural laws.
Abolition of the distinction between the space of reasons and nature.
This means that what is natural is disenchanted.
  (Disenchantment of nature).
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I 102
Naturalism/McDowell: a different kind of naturalism than the blunt naturalism equates nature with the field of natural laws. But it is a different concept of updating our nature:
We must bring the susceptibility for the meaning back into the operations of our natural sensibilities as such.
This does not mean, however, that susceptibility for the meaning can be captured naturalistically (in the sense of natural laws).
>Meaning/McDowell, >Understanding/McDowell, >Nature/McDowell.
This looks as if we had to stand with one foot inside and with the other outside nature. This is not naturalism at all.
  But we must not see ourselves as divisive, the exercise of our spontaneity belongs to our way of realizing ourselves as animals.
>Spontaneity/McDowell.