Minds and Bodies

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"Colin McGinn's essays are always lively, lucid, provocative, and stimulating. He has his eye on hard and important questions, and addresses them with verve and insight. It is very good to have this strong collection available."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Colin McGinn's essays are always lively, lucid, provocative, and stimulating. He has his e...

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Review

"Colin McGinn's essays are always lively, lucid, provocative, and stimulating. He has his eye on hard and important questions, and addresses them with verve and insight. It is very good to have this strong collection available."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Colin McGinn's essays are always lively, lucid, provocative, and stimulating. He has his eye on hard and important questions, and addresses them with verve and insight. It is very good to have this strong collection available."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Product Description

In Minds and Bodies, one of philosophy's most dynamic and versatile thinkers gathers nearly forty review essays written over the past twenty years for publications of a nonspecialized kind. They cover biography, particularly of Russell and Wittgenstein; philosophy of mind, especially consciousness; and ethics, with an emphasis on applied ethics. Lucid and accessible, these essays together form a vivid picture of contemporary philosophy for the general reader, and will be welcomed by those within the philosophical community for their crisp critical insights and rigorous assessments.

Introduction
I. Philosophical Lives
1. Wittgenstein: My Wicked Heart
2. Wittgenstein: Soul on Fire
3. Wittgenstein: Seething
4. Russell: Loftily Earthy and Earthily Lofty ...
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Introduction
I. Philosophical Lives
1. Wittgenstein: My Wicked Heart
2. Wittgenstein: Soul on Fire
3. Wittgenstein: Seething
4. Russell: Loftily Earthy and Earthily Lofty ...
5. Russell: You Would Not Want to Be Him
6. Russell: The Machine in the Ghost
7. Peirce: Logic and Sadness
8. Ayer: Old Scores
II. Mind
9. Penrose: Past Computation
10. Humphrey: Getting the Wiggle into the Act
11. Churchland: A Problem Ignored
12. Marcel and Bisiach: The Language of Awareness
13. Nagel: The View from Nowhere
14. Chalmers: Wise Incomprehension
15. McGinn: Out of Body, Out of Mind
16. Lycan et al.: Imagining an Orgasm
17. Fodor: Mental Representations
18. Fodor: Using Common Sense
19. Davidson: Cooling It
20. Davidson: Weak Wills
21. Davidson: When Is an Action Intentional?
22. Putnam: Ideal Justifications
23. Chomsky: Rules and Representations
24. Quine: Theories and Things
25. Strawson and Warnock: Reputation
26. Sacks: Outpouchings
27. Stroud: Not Knowing What We Know
28. Kripke: Naming and Necessity
29. Ayer: Significantly Senseless
30. Budd: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology
31. Searle: Contract with Reality
32. Dennett: Leftover Life to Live
III. Ethics
33. Singer: Eating Animals Is Wrong
34. Frey: Beyond the Moral Pale
35. Pluhar: Born Free
36. Held and Baier: Mothers and Moralists
37. Foot: Good Things
38. Collingwood: Homage to Education
39. Putnam: In and Out of the Mind
Index
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