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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... heard the name of Descartes . Descartes was described as sitting in his oven on a cold winter's day doubting everything , even the entire external world and the existence of minds other than his own 6 THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER.
... external world that answers to your experience . Yet you surely experience something , your mind is not a blank — things do look a certain way to you . So in this case you must be seeing something other than a physical object , and this ...
... external physical world . Indeed , what right do you have to believe that there even is an external physical world ? Might it not be the case that your sense - data don't correspond to anything external at all ? Might not every- thing ...
... external world was solid as a rock , yet reason tells us that we can be surer of God's existence than of our neighbor's existence . Divinities are more certain than tables and chairs ! I can know for certain that I exist and that God ...
... external world , how much more was it true for the kinds of social and polit- ical beliefs that were taken as gospel ? Since all this was taking place in the late sixties , a time of revision and upheaval , it only added to my sense ...
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