Mcginn: 53 books
Prehension
The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.
“McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream.”
—Steven Pinker
This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension,...
by Keith McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
For any fan of the exploits of Para Handy and the motley crew of the Vital Spark, this memoir is not to be missed. Keith McGinn's capers on the puffers off Scotland's West Coast are funnier than Neil Munro's tales at times, but they are also sadder too. The thing is, all of these stories are true....
House Lust
America's Obsession With Our Homes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history—and its eventual bust.
Owning a home has long been considered the fulfillment...
Shakespeare's Philosophy
Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's...
Basic Structures of Reality
Essays in Meta-Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic...
Philosophical Provocations
55 Short Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
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,...
by Colin McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it...
Inborn Knowledge
The Mystery Within
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
An argument that nativism is true and important but mysterious, examining the particular case of ideas of sensible qualities.
In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate—that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in...
The Making of a Philosopher
My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the...
Psyched Up
How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Closing the sale. Asking for a raise. Nailing the big presentation. Of the 2,000 hours you work every year, your success or failure is determined in the couple of dozen crucial hours when you need to bring your absolute best. Will you?
The last few minutes before a major challenge can be terrifying....
Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
This concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, the Summa was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers...
Early Christian Mystics
The Divine Vision of Spiritual Masters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Bernard McGinn's The Presence of God series is one of the most respected histories of Christian mysticism in print today. In this new book, Bernard and Patricia McGinn draw from the series to take a closer, personal look at the mystical vision of 12 great spiritual masters living before the Reformation....
Mindfucking
A Critique of Mental Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Being surrounded by bullshit is one thing. Having your mind fucked is quite another. The former is irritating, but the latter is violating and intrusive (unless you give your consent). If someone manipulates your thoughts and emotions, messing with your head, you naturally feel resentment: he or she...
The Ethical Engineer
Contemporary Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studies
The Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology transfer to privacy protection to whistle-blowing. Presenting key ethics concepts and real-life...