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Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained

By Colin McGinn

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Hardcover:

9780262028455 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, January 16, 2015), cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780262529822 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 26, 2016), cover price $24.00

Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within

Product Description: In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate -- that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities -- ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780262029391 | Mit Pr, December 4, 2015, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate -- that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired.

Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity

By Colin McGinn

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Hardcover:

9780262029322 | Mit Pr, August 7, 2015, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780522842487, titled "In the Midst of Life: The Australian Response to Death" | Melbourne Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | also contains In the Midst of Life: The Australian Response to Death

Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation

Product Description: Being surrounded by bulls**t is one thing. Having your mind f**ked is quite another. The former is irritating, but the latter is violating and intrusive (unless you give your consent). If someone manipulates your thoughts and emotions, messing with your head, you naturally feel resentment: he or she has distorted your perceptions, disturbed your feelings, maybe even usurped your self...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9781844651146 | Routledge, June 1, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Being surrounded by bullshit is one thing.

Paperback:

9781844655489 | Reprint edition (Acumen Pub Ltd, January 1, 2013), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Being surrounded by bulls**t is one thing.

Bad Patches

Product Description: Dave Green arrives in London with nothing. He is an artist, in search of success. Success does not come easy. His sufferings may or may not bring him redemption.

By Colin McGinn

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9781477688380 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 20, 2012, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Dave Green arrives in London with nothing.

Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy

By Colin McGinn

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9780199856145 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 21, 2011, cover price $73.00

Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-physics

By Colin McGinn

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9780199841103 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 9, 2011, cover price $56.00

The Meaning of Disgust

By Colin McGinn

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9780199829538 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 17, 2011, cover price $38.95

Sport

Product Description: Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it plays in a life lived well...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9781844651481 | Routledge, September 1, 2008, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives.

Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

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, in a narrative that includes essays that evaluate Shakespeare's thematic uses of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. By the author of The Making of a Philosopher. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

By Colin McGinn

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9780060856151 | Harpercollins, December 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A 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, and evaluates Shakespeare's thematic uses of psychology, ethics, and tragedy.

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9780060856168 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: 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, in a narrative that includes essays that evaluate Shakespeare's thematic uses of psychology, ethics, and tragedy.

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 human emotion in all its variations, and how a connection to movies allows one to better understand aspects of human nature. Reprint.

By Colin McGinn

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9780375423178 | Pantheon Books, December 13, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 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 how a connection to movies allows one to better understand human nature.

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9781400077205 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 13, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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 human emotion in all its variations, and how a connection to movies allows one to better understand aspects of human nature.

Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning

By Colin McGinn

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Hardcover:

9780674015609 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 22, 2004, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780674022478 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $24.00

Consciousness and Its Objects

Product Description: Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished. He extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrable...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780199267606 | Clarendon Pr, April 23, 2004, cover price $89.00

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9780199297634 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 15, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Colin McGinn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublished.

The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth Century Philosophy

McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson 'by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside'. The result is part memoir, part introduction to philosophy; the self-portrait of a mind engaged by the radicalism of both rock 'n' roll and Bertrand Russell.

By Colin McGinn

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9780060197926 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The Oxford-educator philosopher serves up his trenchant survey of his academic discipline, offering his commentary of Descartes, Anselm, Bertrand Russell, Sarte, Noam Chomsky, and many other influential thinkers.

Paperback:

9780743231800, titled "The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-century Philosophy" | New edition (Gardners Books, October 6, 2003), cover price $10.80 | About this edition: McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson 'by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside'.

9780060957605, titled "The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy" | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Oxford-educated philosopher serves up his trenchant survey of his academic discipline, offering his commentary on Descartes, Anselm Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Noam Chomsky, and many other influential thinkers.

Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth

By Colin McGinn

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9780199241811 | Clarendon Pr, January 11, 2001, cover price $100.00

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9780199262632 | Clarendon Pr, June 5, 2003, cover price $44.95

Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays

This book 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 world. The essays range over a set of prominent topics in contemporary philosophy, including the analysis of knowledge, the a priori, necessity, possible worlds, realism, mental representation, appearance and reality, and color.

By Colin McGinn

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9780198238232 | Clarendon Pr, June 24, 1999, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book 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 world.

Paperback:

9780199251582 | Clarendon Pr, April 25, 2002, cover price $55.00

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World

By Colin McGinn

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9780465014224, titled "Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World" | Basic Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780465014231 | Basic Books, April 25, 2000, cover price $17.00

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction

Product Description: McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral reflection by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination, McGinn starts by setting out an uncompromisingly realist ethical theory, arguing that morality is an area of objective truth and genuine knowledge...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780198237167, titled "Ethics, Evil and Fiction" | Clarendon Pr, June 26, 1997, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both.

Paperback:

9780198238775 | Clarendon Pr, August 12, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both.

Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas

Product Description: In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporary philosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion not only sharp critical assessment, but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special background in the subject but simply a taste for challenging idea can feel welcome...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Colin McGinn

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9780195113556 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 28, 1997, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporary philosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion not only sharp critical assessment, but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special background in the subject but simply a taste for challenging idea can feel welcome.

The Character of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Product Description: The Character of Mind provides a sweeping and accessible general introduction to the philosophy of mind. Colin McGinn covers all of the main topics--the mind-body problem, the nature of acquaintance, the relation between thought and language, agency, and the self...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780198752097 | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 10, 1997), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The Character of Mind provides a sweeping and accessible general introduction to the philosophy of mind.

Paperback:

9780198752080 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 10, 1997), cover price $55.00

Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

Product Description: This text offers a theory that grounds philosophical difficulty in the natural structure of the human mind, so that there is no objective correlate for the difficulty we experience when trying to solve philosophical problems. The book contains general metaphilosophical discussions of reason and truth, as well as treatments of central topics in philosophy - consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori and knowledge...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9781557864741 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This text offers a theory that grounds philosophical difficulty in the natural structure of the human mind, so that there is no objective correlate for the difficulty we experience when trying to solve philosophical problems.

Paperback:

9781557864758 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $52.95

The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution

Product Description: 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 book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780631188032 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, April 15, 1993), cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious?

Moral Literacy: Or How to Do the Right Thing

"A great resource for beginning ethics courses. The book is short and yet it richly embodies the methods of ethical thinking about practical moral problems that are hard for students to learn unless they see them in action. McGinn perspicuously sets out a small set of basic principles and then attacks the problems of our treatment of animals, abortion, sex, censorship, and so on, with a masterful blend of attention to real-life cases and imaginary thought experiments. McGinn hardly claims to have the last word on the complex issues he discusses, and students will find many exciting problems and points to take up." -- Owen Flanagan, Duke University

By Colin McGinn

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9780872201972 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: "A great resource for beginning ethics courses.

Paperback:

9780872201965 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $14.00

The Space Trap: Alan Swift Leaves Home

Product Description: Alan Swift is an insurance man, a family man, and a space man. But he also has two alter egos: a high-flying imaginary self and a low-lying phobic self. These three selves coexist uneasily. Living at home, in Holloway, he succumbs to claustrophobia; traveling abroad he faces agoraphobia...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9781493756254 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 1, 1992, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Alan Swift is an insurance man, a family man, and a space man.

The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Toward a Resolution

Product Description: This book addresses the problem of consciosness in a material world. The author argues that a belief in consciousness does not undermine atheistic naturalism, despite the fact that consciousness cannot presently be explained by the physical sciences...read more

By Colin McGinn

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9780631176985 | Blackwell Pub, February 1, 1991, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This book addresses the problem of consciosness in a material world.

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