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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... Consciousness Mental Content Wittgenstein on Meaning The Subjective View : Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts The Character of Mind FICTION The Space Trap THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER MY JOURNEY THROUGH TWENTIETH -
... ( meaning " you know Jack Ridley " ) . Of a blunt knife she would say " I could ride bare - arsed to London on this " and give out a throaty , high - pitched cackle . I have no recollection of my maternal grandfather , though his widow is ...
... meaning , as my feet grew colder . The sen- sation was of my mind being seized by abstract reason and carried willy - nilly by the power of logic . The ontolog- ical argument goes like this : God is by definition the most perfect being ...
... meaning of words , as a kind of conceptual necessity ; so it is not logically coherent to doubt his existence , as if this could be a separate matter from what we mean by the word " God . " The existence of God is logically necessary ...
... meaning- less intelligible , revealing the surface phenomenon as just the outward sign of a coherent hidden reality . Freud applied reason to make the irrational seem reasonable . In reading Freud's works at eighteen I experienced the ...
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