Podcast Episodes featuring Colin McGinn

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34. Colin McGinn — Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Philosophy

The Michael Shermer Show - August 22, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratings
In their second Science Salon conversation Michael Shermer and Colin McGinn consider the broader sweep of philosophy after their first encounter in which they focused on consciousness, free will, and God. In this dialogue they review some of the paradoxes and puzzles of philosophy, pseudo-questi...

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29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God

The Michael Shermer Show - July 16, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratings
This podcast was initiated after McGinn commented publicly, and critically, on Shermer’s latest Scientific American column on the mysteries of consciousness, free will, and God. The philosopher Justin Weinberg at the University of South Carolina, who runs the DailyNous website (@DailyNousEdit...

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Colin McGinn, “Philosophy of Language: the Classics Explained” (MIT Press, 2015)

New Books Network - May 28, 2015 11:45 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
I must admit that my relationship to philosophy of language is a bit like my relationship to classic literature: I tend to admire it from afar, and rely on the opinions of people who have read it. The danger is that the received wisdom can sometimes be unreliable, for one reason or another, eithe...

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Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge

Philosophy Bites - February 02, 2013 15:20 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
Descartes believed that we can have knowledge that was independent of experience. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Colin McGinn makes a case for there being some such knowledge. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.

Books written by Colin McGinn

The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Colin McGinn

256 pages - ★★★★ - 219 ratings