Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars Book

I'd rate this higher if all of these essays were like the last one, "Avoiding the Myth of the Given", but they're not. One of the most annoying things about McDowell is he seems to think he needs to rely on the authority of other philosophers, like Kant and Sellars, but he often gets them wrong (or, at the very least, glosses over distinctions that were important to them; see e.g. Friedman's excellent contribution to Reading McDowell's Mind and World, "Exorcising the Philosophical Tradition"). Trying to pick through his misinterpretations and whether they make a difference to his arguments and views is exhausting. With "Avoiding the Myth", he finally recognizes Kant's distinction between intuition and understanding, as well as the role of the productive imagination, (which are both vastly important to both Kant and Sellars, imho) and sees their implications for his own work. But for me, this was frustratingly too little, too late.