Colin McGinn

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Colin McGinn has taught philosophy at institutions of higher learning including University College London, Rutgers University, and Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind, Consciousness and its Objects, The Meaning of Disgust, The Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained visa mer (MIT Press), Inborn Knowledge (MIT Press), and other books. visa färre

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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2002) 329 exemplar

Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays (2006) 193 exemplar

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World (1999) 183 exemplar

The Character of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (OPUS) (1982) 116 exemplar

The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact (2005) 82 exemplar

Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation (2008) 54 exemplar

Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained (2015) 46 exemplar

Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning (2004) 41 exemplar

Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth (2000) 40 exemplar

Moral Literacy: Or How to Do the Right Thing (1992) 39 exemplar

The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution (1991) 37 exemplar

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (1997) 36 exemplar

The Subjective View: Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts (1983) 33 exemplar

Consciousness and Its Objects (2004) 28 exemplar

Wittgenstein on Meaning: An Interpretation and Evaluation (1984) 27 exemplar

Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry (1993) 26 exemplar

Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays (1999) 18 exemplar

Minds and bodies : philosophers and their ideas (1997) 18 exemplar

Discovering the Philosopher in You: The Big Questions in Philosophy (Modern Scholar) (2003) 17 exemplar

Eternal Questions, Timeless Approaches (Portable Professor) (2004) 17 exemplar

Mental Content (1692) 17 exemplar

Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays (MIT Press) (2017) 16 exemplar

Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics (2011) 15 exemplar

The Meaning of Disgust (2011) 12 exemplar

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity (MIT Press) (2015) 12 exemplar

Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within (MIT Press) (2015) 11 exemplar

Sport (2008) 9 exemplar

Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy (2012) 3 exemplar

'The Hollow Man's Story' in TLS 25 June 1999 [review of Rogers' 'AJ Ayer: a biog'] 1 exemplar

'Is Wittgenstein losing his hold?' in TLS 4892, 3 Jan 1997 [review of Hacker's 'Wittgenstein's place in C20th analytic… 1 exemplar

'Metaphor - the key to how you think' in AFR 12 Oct 2007 1 exemplar

"A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge" reprint of articles from Meeting of the Aristotelian Society 22nd March 1976 1 exemplar

Bad Patches (2012) 1 exemplar

The space trap (1992) 1 exemplar

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Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 289 exemplar

Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 108 exemplar

Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 82 exemplar

Shakespeare studies Volume XL (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar

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Födelsedag: 1950-03-10
Kön: male
Nationalitet: UK
Födelseort: West Hartlepool, England, UK
Utbildning: University of Manchester (BA, 1971, MA, 1972, psychology)
Jesus College, Oxford (BPhil, philosophy, 1974)
Yrken: philosopher
Organisationer: University College London
University of Miami
Priser och utmärkelser: John Locke Prize (1972)

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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through… av Colin McGinn

This is another book I read years ago, and now cannot recall what it was like.

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mykl-s | 3 andra recensioner | Jul 24, 2023 |

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material… av Colin Mcginn

Very interesting and cleverly written book about the mind-body question. I don't agree with some of McGinn's ideas but he certainly made me think.

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steve02476 | 1 annan recension | Jan 3, 2023 |

The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact av Colin McGinn

McGinn explores some interesting ideas about the way our minds connect with movies as though they were dreams. The book analyzes several implications of the theory, and provoked thought about the importance of both ways of thinking. Nothing earth-shattering, but still worth a read.

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poirotketchup | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2021 |

Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation av Colin McGinn

Not earth-shattering (not a mindfuck, one could say***), but as McGinn notes in his conclusion, he's only, after all, trying "to articulate what is implicit in our ordinary concepts." I'm a little surprised internet trolls weren't discussed as a modern counterpart to his Shakespearean examples. I'd enjoy reading a less philosophical expansion of his linguisitic umbrella produced in current times, in order to take into account the new* hub-bub around "fake news," disinformation campaigns, viral content online, and news propaganda.

The bulk of this... essay, really, focuses on the bad mindfuck -- mental manipulation, as the title suggests. Besides the absence of trolling, I did kind of wonder why "manipulation" wasn't good enough a label. I'm also unsure how to reconcile the good mindfuck with the bad, since most of this writing emphasizes mindfucks as manipulative to ill end, potentially capable at worst of steering a victim towards insanity. Oh but also romance and falling in love are a mindfuck**, and movies with shocking twist endings are a mindfuck, and his own introduction to the term mindfuck was a bit of a mindfuck. He pushes the analogy of physical fucking versus rape to set up that kind of symmetry, but it got short shrift.

*not actually
**not untrue, and I'm not even totally sure I'd classify this as a wholly "good" side of mindfucking examples
*** but then again, he stretches the analogy to include seeds of ideas being planted in a fucked-mind, and certainly there's a good bit here that could germinate some more...… (mer)

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elam11 | 1 annan recension | May 30, 2020 |

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