Bøker av Colin (Rutgers University) McGinn

Aimed at philsophy graduates this book investigates mental content in a systematic way and advances a number of claims about how mental content states are related to the body and the world. Internalism is the thesis that they are; externalism is the theory that they are not.

Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness.

Offers a theory that grounds philosophical difficulty in the natural structure of the human mind. The book contains metaphilosophical discussions of reason and truth, as well as treatments of central topics in philosophy - consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori and knowledge.