Philosophical provocations : 55 short essays / Colin McGinn.

Author
McGinn, Colin, 1950- [Browse]
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Format
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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Summary note
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
Bibliographic references
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.
ISBN
  • 9780262340090 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0262340097 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1001288291
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