Knowledge and reality [[electronic resource] ] : selected essays / / Colin McGinn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777703903321
• Autore: McGinn Colin <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-19-159801-1; 0-19-151937-5; 9786612051890; 1-282-05189-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 110
• Soggetti: Knowledge, Theory of; Realism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND NECESSITY""; ""1. The Concept of Knowledge""; ""2. A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge""; ""3. A Note on the Essence of Natural Kinds""; ""4. On the Necessity of Origin""; ""5. Modal Reality""; ""PART II: THOUGHT AND WORLD""; ""6. The Structure of Content""; ""7. Conceptual Causation: Some Elementary Reflections""; ""8. Charity, Interpretation, and Belief""; ""9. Radical Interpretation and Epistemology""; ""10. The Mechanism of Reference""; ""PART III: REALITY AND APPEARANCE""; ""11. Truth and Use""; ""12. An A Priori Argument for Realism""""13. Two Notions of Realism?""; ""14. Realist Semantics and Content-Ascription""; ""15. Another Look at Colour""; ""16. The Appearance of Colour""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""
• Sommario/riassunto: Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s taking as its theme the relationship between the mind and the world.