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Life wasn't easy for Tony Collins as he grew up in the mean streets
of the East End of London in the years before the Second World War.
After his mother died when he was still only seven years old, his
father, unable to hold down a job while coping alone with four
young children, was forced to send them to an orphanage. But Tony
came through the hardships and graduated with flying colours from
the school of hard knocks, to head straight for a career as a
commando with the Royal Marines. During a stint in Malta Tony fell
head over heels for a local beauty, and after marrying her he soon
began to regard the island as his home. He went on to rise rose
through the ranks to become a warrant officer, turning down the
opportunity to become a regimental sergeant major back in the UK
because it would have meant uprooting his family from the island he
had grown to love. The Cockney Commando is a heart-warming story of
triumph in adversity and of challenges overcome through love and
courage.
An important work in the debate between materialists and dualists,
the public correspondence between Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins
provided the framework for arguments over consciousness and
personal identity in eighteenth-century Britain. In Clarke's view,
mind and consciousness are so unified that they cannot be
compounded into wholes or divided into parts, so mind and
consciousness must be distinct from matter. Collins, by contrast,
was a perceptive advocate of a materialist account of mind, who
defended the possibility that thinking and consciousness are
emergent properties of the brain. In this edition, selections from
the correspondence are presented according to lines of argument for
improved readability. Appendices include philosophical writings
that influenced, and responded to, the correspondence.
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