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Colin McGinn, educated at Oxford University, is the author of sixteen\nprevious books, including The Making of a Philosopher. He has written\nfor the London Review of Books, The New Republic, the New York Times Book Review,\nand other publications. He has taught philosophy at University College\nof London, Oxford, and Rutgers University, and is a distinguished\nprofessor of philosophy at the University of Miami. He is best known\nfor his work in the philosophy of mind, but has published across the\nsubjects of modern philosophy. He was featured in Bill Moyers' series Faith and Reason on PBS and also Jonathan Miller's Atheism Tapes, a BBC documentary series.
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\nIn this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Colin McGinn explores various\nkinds of skepticism, giving his concerns about radical fallibilism and\ncertain post-modern critiques of knowledge. He explains how he is\ncertain that ghosts and Gods don't exist. He details how atheistic the\nprofession of philosophy is, and how the tolerance shown while\nphilosophers criticize each other serves as a model for good\ncitizenship. He tells the reasons that led to his religious skepticism\nand atheism. He examines William Shakespeare as a philosopher, the\nproblem of evil in Shakespeare's plays, and other philosophical\nsubjects found in Shakespeare such as epistemology, ethics, life after\ndeath, happiness and the meaning of life. He also explains how getting\ninto Shakespeare as a professional philosopher impacted his philosophy.