Os Limites do questionamento filosófico para Colin McGinn

Authors

  • Adan John Gomes da Silva UFRN

Keywords:

Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of mind, Cognitive limits

Abstract

Colin Mcginn is an English philosopher, interested in explaining why the questioning is so hard and arid philosophical answers, throws a proposal at least daring; that the problems of philosophy are not only difficult, but also impossible to solve. Starting from a metaphilosophical investigation that identifies a pattern to the responses that philosophers have given to these problems, and a philosophy of mind which argues that humans are cognitively closed to certain aspects of reality, Mcginn concludes that the problems of philosophy, although real, are beyond our cognitive competence. This work aims to show the route that this author trail until you reach a proposal so unique, while attempts to characterize the originality of Mcginn in relation to other ways of looking at philosophy.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Adan John Gomes da Silva, UFRN

Aluno regular do Mestrado em filosofia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN

References

CHOMSKY, Noam. Reflexões sobre a linguagem. Tradução de Carlos Vogt... (et al.). São Paulo: Cultrix, 1980.

FEARN, Nicholas. Filosofia: novas respostas para antigas questões. Tradução de Maria Luiza X. de A. Borges. Rio de Janeiro: editora Jorge Zahar, 2007.

MCGINN, Colin. Problems in Philosophy; the limits of inquiry. Blackwell Publishers. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1993.

______. A construção de um filósofo; minha trajetória na filosofia do século XX. Trad. de Luiz Paulo Guanabara. Editora Record, São Paulo, 2004.

______. "Can we solve the mind-body problem?". Mind. New Series, Volume 98, Issue 391 (Jul., 1989), pp. 349-366.

Published

2020-06-05

How to Cite

SILVA, A. J. G. da. Os Limites do questionamento filosófico para Colin McGinn. Trilhas Filosóficas, [S. l.], v. 6, n. 2, p. 21–28, 2020. Disponível em: https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RTF/article/view/1914. Acesso em: 8 jul. 2024.

Issue

Section

FLUXO CONTíNUO