Philosophical Provocations:55 Short Essays 英文原版 哲学挑衅:55篇短文 Colin Mcginn

基本信息

By (author) Colin McGinn

Format Hardback | 328 pages

Dimensions 178 x 229 x 24mm | 680.39g

Publication date 24 Aug 2017

Publisher MIT Press Ltd

Imprint MIT Press

Publication City/Country Cambridge, United States

Language English

ISBN10 0262036193

ISBN13 9780262036191

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内容简介

Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.

In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on philosophical problems ranging from the concept of mind to paradox, altruism, and the relation between God and the Devil. Avoiding the usual scholarly apparatus and embracing a blunt pithiness, McGinn aims to achieve as much as possible in as short a space as possible while covering as many topics as possible. Much academic philosophical writing today is long, leaden, citation heavy, dense with qualifications, and painful to read. The essays in Philosophical Provocations are short, direct, and engaging, often challenging philosophical orthodoxy as they consider issues in mind, language, knowledge, metaphysics, biology, ethics, and religion.

McGinn is looking for new ways to think about old problems. Thus he writes, about consciousness, "I think we have been all wrong," and goes on to suggest that both consciousness and the unconscious are mysteries. Summing up his proposal on altruism, he remarks, "My suggestion can now be stated, somewhat brutally, as follows: human altruism is the result of parasitic manipulation." He takes a moment to reflect: "I really don't know why it is good to be alive, though I am convinced that the standard suggestions don't work." McGinn gets straight to the point and states his position with maximum clarity. These essays offer provocative invitations to think again.

活泼，直接，大胆：提出了各种新方法来思考旧问题，涵盖了一系列哲学主题。

在《哲学的挑衅》中，科林·麦金恩（Colin McGinn）提供了一系列简短而敏锐的论文，涉及从思想观念到悖论，利他主义以及上帝与魔鬼之间的关系等哲学问题。麦金（McGinn）避免使用通常的学术手段，而是坚持直言不讳的原则，力求在尽可能短的空间内实现尽可能多的目标，同时涵盖尽可能多的主题。如今，许多学术哲学著作篇幅长，含铅，引文繁重，学历稠密且难以阅读。《哲学挑衅》中的文章简短，直接，引人入胜，经常挑战哲学正统观念，因为它们考虑的是思想，语言，知识，形而上学，生物学，伦理学和宗教方面的问题。

麦金正在寻找思考旧问题的新方法。因此，他关于意识写了“我认为我们都错了”，并继续暗示意识和无意识都是谜。在总结他关于利他主义的建议时，他说：“我的建议现在可以有点残酷地陈述如下：人类利他主义是寄生操纵的结果。” 他花了一点时间反省：“我真的不知道为什么活着是件好事，尽管我坚信标准建议没有用。” 麦金（McGinn）直言不讳，并以*大的清晰度阐明了自己的立场。这些文章提出了重新思考的挑衅性邀请。

作者简介

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, Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained, Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within, Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity (the last three published by the MIT Press), and other books.

柯林·麦金（Colin McGinn）在伦敦大学学院，罗格斯大学和牛津大学等高等学府教授哲学。他是《心灵的品格，意识及其对象》，《厌恶的意义》，《语言哲学：经典解释》，《与生俱来的知识：内在的奥秘》，《理解：人类的手和人类的出现》（后三本书）的作者。麻省理工学院出版社）和其他书籍。