The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyPart memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page. |
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... Reality Chapter Five - Belief, Desire, and Wittgenstein Chapter Six - Consciousness and Cognition Chapter Seven - Metaphilosophy and Fiction Chapter Eight - Evil, Beauty, and Logic Acknowledgments About the Author Praise for Colin ...
... questions about reality . As I am at pains to show , I myself was drawn to philosophy— irresistibly so simply by the intrinsic interest of the questions ; in a way , it is accidental that I ended up teaching in a university.
... reality that answers to this definition . An agnostic who doubts God's existence surely knows perfectly well what the word " God " means - just as we all know what " unicorn " means . So at least it might be thought that atheism is a ...
... reality we ever literally perceive is a virtual reality, a shadow world of fleeting sensations. Hence the philosophers' description of the ordinary view of perception as “naive realism”: We no more really perceive physical objects than ...
... reality. When I go, so does everything else, since there is no anything else. I was pleased to see recently that this nightmarish vision had been converted into the basis for ... reality at all. So far as experience is concerned, reality can.
Contents
Chapter Three Logic and Language | |
Chapter Four Mind and Reality | |
Chapter Five Belief Desire and Wittgenstein | |
Chapter Six Consciousness and Cognition | |
Chapter Seven Metaphilosophy and Fiction | |
Chapter Eight Evil Beauty and Logic | |
Acknowledgments | |
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