Colin McGinn

Colin McGinn teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Miami and is a Cooper Fellow. His most recent book is Shakespeare’s Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays. (March 2008)

From the Review

March 6, 2008: The Musical Mystery

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

September 27, 2007: How You Think

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

April 10, 2003: Isn't It the Truth?

Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams

December 19, 2002: Relativity & Objectivity (letter)

November 21, 2002: Looking for a Black Swan

All Life Is Problem Solving by Karl Popper, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophyin Interwar Vienna by Malachi Haim Hacohen

Karl Popper: Lesson of This Century interviewed by Giancarlo Bosetti, translated from the German by Patrick Camiller

June 27, 2002: An Ardent Fallibilist

Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick

April 12, 2001: Can You Believe It?

The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World Hilary Putnam

June 15, 2000: Sign Language

Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco, Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen

February 24, 2000: 'Freud Under Analysis': An Exchange

November 4, 1999: Freud Under Analysis

June 10, 1999: Can We Ever Understand Consciousness?

Mind, Language, and Society:Philosophy in the Real World by John R. Searle

On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 by Paul M. Churchland, by Patricia S. Churchland

Books by Colin McGinn

The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2002)
Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth (2001)
The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World (1999)
Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays (1999)
The Character of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (1997)
Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas (1997)
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (1997)
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry (1993)
Moral Literacy, Or, How to Do the Right Thing (1992)
The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Toward a Resolution (1991)
Mental Content (1989)
Wittgenstein on Meaning: An Interpretation and Evaluation (1984)
The Subjective View: Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts (1983)