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Colin McGinn has taught philosophy at institutions of higher learning including University College London, Rutgers University, and Oxford University. He is the author of The Character of Mind, Consciousness and its Objects, The Meaning of Disgust, The Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained mehr anzeigen (MIT Press), Inborn Knowledge (MIT Press), and other books. weniger anzeigen

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Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (1997) 36 Exemplare
Consciousness and Its Objects (2004) 28 Exemplare

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Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2002) — Mitwirkender — 289 Exemplare
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca (2002) — Mitwirkender — 108 Exemplare
Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem (1997) — Mitwirkender — 82 Exemplare
Shakespeare studies Volume XL (2012) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare

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This is another book I read years ago, and now cannot recall what it was like.
 
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mykl-s | 3 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 24, 2023 |
Very interesting and cleverly written book about the mind-body question. I don't agree with some of McGinn's ideas but he certainly made me think.
 
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steve02476 | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 3, 2023 |
McGinn explores some interesting ideas about the way our minds connect with movies as though they were dreams. The book analyzes several implications of the theory, and provoked thought about the importance of both ways of thinking. Nothing earth-shattering, but still worth a read.
 
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poirotketchup | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 18, 2021 |
Not earth-shattering (not a mindfuck, one could say***), but as McGinn notes in his conclusion, he's only, after all, trying "to articulate what is implicit in our ordinary concepts." I'm a little surprised internet trolls weren't discussed as a modern counterpart to his Shakespearean examples. I'd enjoy reading a less philosophical expansion of his linguisitic umbrella produced in current times, in order to take into account the new* hub-bub around "fake news," disinformation campaigns, viral content online, and news propaganda.

The bulk of this... essay, really, focuses on the bad mindfuck -- mental manipulation, as the title suggests. Besides the absence of trolling, I did kind of wonder why "manipulation" wasn't good enough a label. I'm also unsure how to reconcile the good mindfuck with the bad, since most of this writing emphasizes mindfucks as manipulative to ill end, potentially capable at worst of steering a victim towards insanity. Oh but also romance and falling in love are a mindfuck**, and movies with shocking twist endings are a mindfuck, and his own introduction to the term mindfuck was a bit of a mindfuck. He pushes the analogy of physical fucking versus rape to set up that kind of symmetry, but it got short shrift.

*not actually
**not untrue, and I'm not even totally sure I'd classify this as a wholly "good" side of mindfucking examples
*** but then again, he stretches the analogy to include seeds of ideas being planted in a fucked-mind, and certainly there's a good bit here that could germinate some more...
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elam11 | 1 weitere Rezension | May 30, 2020 |

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