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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... Fiction ; and the novel The Space Trap . He is a pro- fessor of philosophy at Rutgers University and lives in New York City . This One RCZF - EOE - 7S9L ALSO BY COLIN MCGINN NONFICTION Logical Properties : Identity ,
My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy Colin McGinn. ALSO BY COLIN MCGINN NONFICTION Logical Properties : Identity , Existence , Predication , Necessity , Truth The Mysterious Flame : Conscious Minds in a Material World ...
... Logic and Language ... .57 CHAPTER FOUR Mind and Reality .89 CHAPTER FIVE Belief , Desire , and Wittgenstein ... Logic .215 Preface THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO EXPLAIN PHILOSOPHY.
... logic to Descartes's doubts , whatever their bearing on religion might be ( in fact , Descartes's system relies centrally on God , but Mr. Marsh never mentioned this ) . As a result of these philosophical intrusions I started to dip ...
... logic . The ontolog- ical argument goes like this : God is by definition the most perfect being of which you can conceive . He combines all the perfections in one entity — absolutely good , perfectly wise , infinitely powerful . This is ...
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