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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... logical argument that the exis- tence of God cannot be sensibly denied . No need to appeal to leaps of faith or speculations about how the world began or the occurrence of miracles : We get the existence of God for free , as a matter of ...
... logical enough — and they shatter a central part of our com- monsense view of our place in the world . Our common- sense beliefs are not as rationally impregnable as we fondly supposed before we inquired into their foundations . The ...
... logic and agenda — as he did with neurotic symptoms , slips of the tongue , jokes , and so on . By analyzing these phenomena and applying suitable theoretical constructs , Freud makes the meaning- less intelligible , revealing the ...
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