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877092
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| Uniform Title
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Essays.
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| Main Entry
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McGinn, Colin,1950-
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| Title & Author
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Philosophical provocations : : 55 short essays /\ Colin McGinn.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: The MIT Press,, [2017]
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1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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| ISBN
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0262340097
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: 9780262340090
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0262036193
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9780262036191
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Abstract
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Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
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Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY-- General.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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Philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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192
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BD41.M34 2017eb
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