Abstract

HERNANDEZ BETANCUR, Juan Pablo. Racionalidad y acción no reflexiva. El debate Dreyfus-McDowell. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2015, vol.47, n.140, pp.43-63.  Epub Feb 20, 2020. ISSN 0011-1503.

The recent debate initiated by Hubert Dreyfus and John McDowell has called attention on the relation between rationality and unreflective action. In this paper I propose a form of specifying the disagreement between intellectualists and anti-intellectualists, as I will call them. In light of this proposal I argue that the main anti-intelectualist argument can only succeed if at least one of three implicit presuppositions is granted. These presuppositions are far from being self-evident and their truth is challenged by familiar phenomena. I finish with some remarks that suggest the intellectualist ends up in a better argumentative position.

Keywords : intellectualism; reasons for action; nonconceptual content; phenomenology; absorbed coping.

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