Marie McGinn is a

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

working in

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...

and

Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...

. McGinn is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

Biography

Marie McGinn holds a bachelor's degree from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

and a BPhil and DPhil from

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and taught at Oxford, the University of Wisconsin in Madison and

. In 2011 she was appointed president of the

Aristotelian Society The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, more generally known as the Aristotelian Society, is a philosophical society in London. History Aristotelian Society was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Squar ...

Publications

* ''The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations'' (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books), (Routledge, 2013) * ''Elucidating The Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language'' (Oxford University Press, 2009) * "The Writer and Society: An Interpretation of Nausea", ''British Journal of Aesthetics'' 37 (1997), pp. 118–28. * "Wittgenstein's Remarks On Colour", ''Philosophy'', Volume 66 (1991), Issue 258, pp. 435–453

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