Publication: Colin McGinn, Mindfucking: a critique of mental manipulation, Stocksfield, Acumen Publishing, 2008, pp. 78
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2013
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Abstract
The paper is a review of Colin McGinn’s Mindfucking: a critique of mental manipulation. After a short introduction to McGinn’s work, the first part of the paper offers a thorough chapter-by-chapter analysis of the book. The second part follows other commentators in pointing out that several arguments in the book are not bullet-proof, and eventually suggests that the book is better appreciated as a mere philosophical divertissement. An appendix reports about recent events that led McGinn to resign his position at the University of Miami.
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Lies, Mind, Language
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Neri Marsilil, "Colin McGinn, "Mindfucking: a critique of mental manipulation", Stocksfield, Acumen Publishing, 2008, pp. 78", in "APhEx 8", 2013, pp. 18