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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Part 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 …
The Subjective View
This book investigates subjective and objective representations of the world. Analogies between secondary qualities and indexical thoughts are developed, and subjective …
Bad Patches
The Space Trap: Alan Swift Leaves Home
The Problem of Consciousness
Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This …
Shakespeare's Philosophy
A distinguished professor of philosophy offers insight into how six of Shakespeare's major works reflect the bard's personal beliefs and were influenced by the essays of Montaigne, …
The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact
A philosopher addresses the question of why movies have become such a compelling form of entertainment, analyzing how film works on the human mind and imagination, how it expresses …
Knowledge and Reality
Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s, whose unifying theme is the relation between the mind and the …
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers original new insights for both. Its central aim is to enrich the domain of …
Logical Properties
The concepts of identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are at the centre of philosophy and have rightly received sustained attention. Yet Colin McGinn believes that …