Corijn van Mazijk’s book is a critical exploration of the relations between Immanuel Kant’s, Edmund Husserl’s, and John McDowell’s transcendental philosophies. His primary aim is not to conduct a historical study, but “to show that history provides us with viable alternatives to McDowell’s theory of our perceptual access to reality.” The book covers a variety of McDowellian themes: the Myth of the Given, the space of reasons vs. the space of nature, conceptualism, disjunctivism, naturalism, and realism—uncovering the roots of McDowell’s views and providing Kantian and Husserlian correctives where needed.

Corijn van Mazijk的书对伊曼纽尔·康德（Immanuel Kant），埃德蒙·胡塞尔（Edmund Husserl）和约翰·麦克道威尔（John McDowell）的先验哲学之间的关系进行了批判性的探索。他的主要目的不是进行历史研究，而是“证明历史为我们提供了麦克道尔关于我们对现实的感性接触的理论的可行替代方案。” 书中涵盖了各种McDowellian主题：给定的原因空间的神话VS。自然，概念主义，析取主义，自然主义和现实主义的空间-揭示麦克道尔观点的根源，并在需要时提供康德和胡塞尔矫正法。