Hi Colin, FYI on a Chinese edition (!) of Minds and Bodies. Best Peter From: Emma Gier <emma.gier@oup.com> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2025 4:56 AM To: Peter Ohlin <Peter.Ohlin@oup.com> Cc: Alastair Lewis <Alastair.Lewis@oup.com>; Cara McMeekan <Cara.Mcmeekan@oup.com>; Georgina Hoare <Georgina.Hoare@oup.com>; James Sykes <James.Sykes@oup.com>; Jenny Child <Jenny.Child@oup.com>; Junan Collins <Junan.Collins@oup.com>; Sophie Goldsworthy <sophie.goldsworthy@oup.com>; Tasmin Dodson <Tasmin.Dodson@oup.com>; Jacqueline […]

Empiricism Refashioned Historically, we can distinguish three theories of the origin of knowledge: empiricism, rationalism, and revelationism (as it may be called). The first locates the origin of knowledge in conscious sense experience, particularly vision; the second accords a significant role to innate endowment (instinct, genetics); the third regards true knowledge as emanating from an […]

Subject: First Set of Questions & Notes on the Interview Project Dear Professor McGinn, First of all, I want to sincerely thank you once again for giving me this opportunity. It truly means a great deal to me, and I consider it a rare honor. As I mentioned before, the interview I am preparing will […]

Dear Professor McGinn, My name is Ehsan Ahrari, a sociologist and writer based in Iran. Over the past years, I have been engaged in a series of grassroots conversations under the banner of Sociology of the Everyday, where we explore ordinary life through a philosophical and ethical lens—often without institutional scaffolding, but with deep intellectual urgency. […]

Vanity It used to be said of certain people that they are “vain” or “arrogant” or “conceited” or “prideful” or “boastful”. Then it was said that such people are “big-headed” or a “bighead”, possibly “cocky” in some contexts (“He’s a cocky bugger”). Later it became “egotistical” or “egocentric”—a slightly more clinical name for the syndrome, […]