Colin Mcginn

Knowledge and Reality

Selected Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238232
• ISBN-10: 0198238231
• Artikelnr.: 24080181

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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.