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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... Ideas Problems in Philosophy : The Limits of Inquiry Moral Literacy , Or , How to Do the Right Thing The Problem of Consciousness Mental Content Wittgenstein on Meaning The Subjective View : Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts ...
... ideas as clear as possible while doing justice to academic philosophy as it has 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 ...
... idea had never been mentioned in my house ; it was not something a McGinn had ever done before . My teachers expected that I would become a PE teacher because of my sporting talents and moderate ability with book learning . My own ...
... idea of the most powerful conceivable entity : Doesn't such an entity have to exist , for the simple reason that not existing is a drastic reduction in how pow- erful an entity is ? To put the argument in the terse classi- cal form in ...
... public and used to speak regularly on BBC radio in the 1950s . He was not himself an original philosopher but derived most of his ideas from Bertrand Russell , about whom more later . ( Russell 12 THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER.
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