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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... sense - data , impressions , experi- ences , representations . Perception is not a faculty that unlocks the ways of the physical world outside of our minds ; rather , it is confined to a purely inner array of mental items . The only ...
... sense - datum " : so you can be said to see sense - data of bent sticks , pink rats , and dag- gers , even when you really see none of these physical things . You perceive the subjective appearances of things , not things themselves ...
... sense - data in the ordinary veridical case too ? When you " see " a real dagger you see a sense- datum of a dagger ; it is just that there is an actual dagger there that matches your directly experienced daggerlike sense - datum . So ...
... sense - data ; but I had the stifling feeling that I was only gazing harder at what was inside me -- my own subjective world , not the common public world I had believed in up until then . There was at best a correspondence between the ...
... sense - data don't correspond to anything external at all ? Might not every- thing be a dream ? Descartes asked us to consider an evil demon who produced sense - data in our minds but made sure that nothing ever corresponded to them ...
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy Colin McGinn Limited preview - 2011 |
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