Gräben der Vernunft

John McDowell’s ‘Mind and World’ begins from a simple thought: true judgments are about nothing other than what we think in them. Yet, at the latest when McDowell proceeds from this idea first to equate judgment and perception in terms of their form, and then even judgment and world, it becomes clear that this thought is the source of far-reaching claims. Konstanty Kuzma attempts to meet McDowell’s requirements concerning the world-directedness of our thought without thereby equating the form of what belongs to the world with that of what belongs to the subject. To this end, he shows that the world and our cognitive achievements (judgments, perceptions, and experience) are internally differentiated yet related to one another, and that it is only through this relation that cognition becomes possible.