Knowledge and Reality
Selected Essays
Published on 28. January 1999
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-0-19-823823-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 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 colour. McGinn has written a new postscript to each essay, placing it in its philosophical context by sketching the background against which it was written, explaining its relations to other notable work, and offering his current reflections on the topic. The volume thus traces the development of McGinn's ideas and their role in some central philosophical debates. Seen together the essays offer a many-sided defence of realism, while emphasizing the epistemological price that realism exacts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
675 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823823-2 (9780198238232)
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02/2002
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Person
Colin McGinn is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He was previously Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and before that Reader in Philosophy at University College London.
Content
INTRODUCTION; PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND NECESSITY; 1. THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE; 2. A PRIORI AND A POSTERIORI KNOWLEDGE; 3. A NOTE ON THE ESSENCE OF NATURAL KINDS; 4. ON THE NECESSITY OF ORIGIN; 5. MODAL REALITY; PART II: THOUGHT AND WORLD; 6. THE STRUCTURE OF CONTENT; 7. CONCEPTUAL CAUSATION: SOME ELEMENTARY REFLECTIONS; 8. CHARITY, INTERPRETATION, AND BELIEF; 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION AND EPISTEMOLOGY; 10. THE MECHANISM OF REFERENCE; PART III: REALITY AND APPEARANCE; 11. TRUTH AND USE; 12. AN A PRIORI ARGUMENT FOR REALISM; 13. TWO NOTIONS OF REALISM? 14. REALIST SEMANTICS AND CONTENT-ASCRIPTION; 15. ANOTHER LOOK AT COLOUR; 16. THE APPEARANCE OF COLOUR; INDEX.