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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... Reality : Selected Essays Ethics , Evil , and Fiction Minds and Bodies : Philosophers and Their Ideas Problems in Philosophy : The Limits of Inquiry Moral Literacy , Or , How to Do the Right Thing The Problem of Consciousness Mental ...
... Reality .89 CHAPTER FIVE Belief , Desire , and Wittgenstein ..... .123 CHAPTER SIX Consciousness and Cognition ........ 157 CHAPTER SEVEN Metaphilosophy and Fiction . .187 CHAPTER EIGHT Evil , Beauty , and Logic .215 Preface THE PURPOSE ...
... reality . As I am at pains to show , I myself was drawn to philosophy - irresistibly so — simply by the intrinsic interest of the questions ; in a way , it is accidental that I ended up teaching in a university philos- ophy department ...
... , if a unicorn were to exist it would have a single horn . The question put by someone who doubts God's existence is whether there exists anything in reality answering to this definition . Yes , God would 8 THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER.
... reality that answers to this definition . An agnostic who doubts God's existence surely knows perfectly well what the word " God " means - just as we all know what " unicorn " means . So at least it might be thought that atheism is a ...
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