A route from Kant to Hegel. Destination: McDowell?

Abstract

This paper focuses on the relation between the thinking of John McDowell and Hegel’s philosophy. The key issue is to explain the main argument that, within the framework of analytic philosophy, goes from a Kantian to a Hegelian position. Kant’s transcendental deduction of categories and its interpretation, seen from the perspective of Wilfrid Sellar’s criticism to the Myth of the Given, is the key point. Departing from that, my aim is to discuss whether this route from Kant to Hegel finally ends at John McDowell’s philosophy by contrasting the philosophy of these last two: to rethink the notion of idealism and the relationship between experience and metaphysics on both authors, Hegel and McDowell, in both their similarities and in their differences.