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. McGinn defends a realist view, but emphasizes the epistemological problems that come with it. He has written a new postscript to each essay, placing it in its philosophical context and offering his current reflections on the topic.
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or so obviously tied to meaning—we can always deny it, if we are willing to make “compensatory” conceptual changes. This claim is controversial on its own. Yet he challenged a distinction that had been at work in philosophy spanning ...
This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades.
This book explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
... e.g. , by Allen , p . 119 ) that Lysis 219-220 shows a notion of " eponymy , ” is dubious : see Owen 3 , pp . 163-190 ( esp . 182-183 , with references ) . ( Allen also fails here to provide any arguments for his claim that “ there ...
This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy.
Here is a golden opportunity to think about some of the most important questions asked by philosophers over across the history of Western philosophical thought and discover why they still matter.
that would make it possible to state that the meaning of observation sentences (and their truth value) is logically determined by observation, by the conditions of their empirical application. The principles in question are those of (1) ...
This textbook introduction offers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions. It asks questions such as: Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know?
This book introduces the central issues of metaphysics and epistemology, from skepticism, justification, and perception to universals, personal identity, and free will.