John H. McDowell

John H. McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Before coming to Pittsburgh in 1986, he taught at University College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Princeton University. He was the John Locke Lecturer at Oxford University in 1991. His major interests are Greek philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books and numerous essays, including Mind and World (1994; reissued with a new introduction, 1996); Mind, Value, and Reality [a collection of papers] (1998); and Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality [a collection of papers] (1998).