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 ratingsIn 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...
29. Colin McGinn — Mysterianism, Consciousness, Free Will, and God
The Michael Shermer Show - July 16, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratingsThis 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...
Colin McGinn, “Philosophy of Language: the Classics Explained” (MIT Press, 2015)
New Books Network - May 28, 2015 11:45 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratingsI 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...
Colin McGinn on Descartes on Innate Knowledge
Philosophy Bites - February 02, 2013 15:20 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsDescartes 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.
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