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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... actually been practiced over the last thirty years . What you get here is what there is . Not that this kind of philosophy is somehow only of interest to those who are paid to practice it ; part of my point in this book is that these ...
... actually choose to pay good money to visit the place . The main activities of young men in the town were drinking and fighting , and trying to take clumsy advantage of visiting girls under the piers . The school I attended was loutish ...
... actually read books for pleasure ! I was a big reader of children's books when I was young , especially the Dr. Doolittle stories , but since adolescence I had read almost nothing , just the odd horror story or piece of science fic ...
... actually exists . As Anselm put it , God is defined as the being " than whom no greater can be conceived . " That is , if God exists , then by definition he is the sum of all perfections - just as , if a unicorn were to exist it would ...
... actually you are stuck in a vat somewhere in Cleveland hallucinating all this . What the scientists are doing is producing a mere simulation of the ordinary physical world — a virtual world of pure sense- data . They also cleverly ...
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy Colin McGinn Limited preview - 2011 |
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