Colin McGinn has taught philosophy at institutions of higher learning including University College London, Rutgers University, and Oxford University. The author of over two dozen books including The Character of Mind,Consciousness and Its Objects, and The Making of a Philosopher, he has written for the London Review of Books, The New Republic, Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. His latest book The Philosophy of Language:The Classics Explained was recently released by MIT Press.