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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... Thing The Problem of 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 ...
... thing ; most of the boys I knew there were in low - level jobs by the age of sixteen . Still , I always did pretty well in mathe- matics and English ( but boy , was I bad at geography ) . I made a point of getting my homework over with ...
... things ) . Naturally , I was very con- cerned with whether the existence of God could be ratio- nally established , especially since at that time I would have counted myself a Christian believer : not that I had been brought up this way ...
... things do look a certain way to you . So in this case you must be seeing something other than a physical object ... things . You perceive the subjective appearances of things , not things themselves , since they aren't there to be 14 THE ...
... Things look the same in both cases ; your experience is the same ; you can't tell the difference . Doesn't this mean that you must be aware of sense - data in the ordinary veridical case too ? When you " see " a real dagger you see a ...
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