Knowledge and Reality Selected Essays
Knowledge and Reality Selected Essays by Colin McGinn is a collection published by Clarendon Press in 1999, comprising 330 pages in English. This volume gathers a selection of McGinn’s philosophical essays written between the 1970s and the 1990s, focusing on the relationship between the mind and the world. The essays cover significant topics in contemporary philosophy, such as the analysis of knowledge, necessity, possible worlds, and realism.
Readers will find that each essay includes a new postscript by McGinn, which provides context and insights into the philosophical landscape at the time of writing. This edition highlights the evolution of McGinn’s thoughts and their relevance to key debates in philosophy, particularly concerning realism and its epistemological implications. The work serves as a comprehensive exploration of themes in epistemology and metaphysics, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the intersections of mind and reality.
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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. The essays range over a set of prominent topics in contemporary philosophy, including the analysis of knowledge, the a priori, necessity, possible worlds, realism, mental representation, appearance and reality, and colour. McGinn has written a new postscript to each essay, placing it in its philosophical context by sketching the background against which it was written, explaining its relations to other notable work, and offering his current reflections on the topic. The volume thus traces the development of McGinn’s ideas and their role in some central philosophical debates. Seen together the essays offer a many-sided defence of realism, while emphasizing the epistemological price that realism exacts.
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