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Philosophical provocations : 55 short essays / Colin McGinn.
Author
McGinn, Colin, 1950-
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Essays.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Available Online
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Philosophy
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Essays
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Summary note
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version record.
Contents
Preface
I. Mind. The Mystery of the Unconscious
Concepts of Mind
Knowledge and Emotion: An Untenable Dualism
The Second Mind
Awareness of Time
Mind-Brain Identity Theories
Are There Actions?
Actions and Reasons
Consciousness and Light
Have We Already Solved the Mind-Body Problem?
The Reality of the Inner
The Thought of Language
II Language. Meaning Monism
Against Language-Games
Meaning without Language
For Privacy
On the Impossibility of a (Wholly) Public Language
Deciding to Mean
Truth, Verification, and Meaning
Meaning and Argument
III Knowledge.
Knowledge and Truth
Proof of an External World
The Simulation Game
The Riddle of Knowledge
Does Knowledge Imply Truth?
Everything Is Hidden
Light and Our Knowledge of Matter
Seeing the Light
IV Metaphysics
Knowing and Necessity
Antirealism Refuted
The Puzzle of Paradox
The Secret Cement
Analysis and Mystery
Explanation and Necessity; Against Possible Worlds; The Concept of a Person; The Question of Being; Science as Metaphysics; Logic without Propositions (or Sentences); V Biology
Selfish Genes and Moral Parasites
The Evolution of Color
The Language of Evolution.
Immaterial DarwinismTrait Selection
VI Ethics. The Trouble with Consequentialism
Absurd Utilitarianism
Why Is It Good to Be Alive?
Physical Noncognitivism
Child Liberation
Modesty and Self-Knowledge
Is Romantic Self-Love Possible?
Against Laughter
VII Religion. A Deontological Theodicy
God and the Devil
A Religion of Hate
Index.
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ISBN
9780262340090 ((electronic bk.))
0262340097 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1001288291
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