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Oh America!

January 13, 2021/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

I have lived in this country for 30 years, but I count myself an outsider. What we have witnessed in the last week, and in the last few years, has undoubtedly been ugly in the extreme, but to my eye it is not so far removed from business as usual in America. The same tendencies […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-01-13 14:16:322021-01-13 14:16:32Oh America!

Self-Blindness and “I”

January 8, 2021/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Self-Blindness and “I”   Hume’s point that the self is not introspectively detectable has always been met with intuitive acceptance. Its significance is more contentious. Does it show that the self does not exist, or that introspection is limited, or that the self is really just a congeries of mental states? A possible view […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-01-08 15:09:182021-01-08 15:09:18Self-Blindness and “I”

Death, Time, and Other Minds

January 5, 2021/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Death, Time, and Other Minds   It is often said that we are “social animals”. What seems to be intended is twofold: we have an emotional craving for human contact, and we are similar to other social animals in this respect.  [1] Both observations are surely correct, but could there be anything more to our […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-01-05 13:49:152021-01-05 13:49:15Death, Time, and Other Minds

Cognitive Closure De Dicto and De Re

January 1, 2021/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Cognitive Closure De Dicto and De Re   De dicto belief does not entail de re belief and vice versa. The two have different conditions of possibility. Someone could believe de dicto that the tallest man in the world is over 8 feet without believing de re of the tallest man that he is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-01-01 14:34:512021-01-01 14:34:51Cognitive Closure De Dicto and De Re

Physiological Investigations

December 30, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Physiological Investigations   It would be wrong to think that all the organs of the body are pumps. The heart is a pump and it features prominently in our picture of the body, but not every organ resembles the heart. We might be tempted to think that the lungs, stomach, and kidneys are […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-12-30 15:17:212020-12-30 15:17:21Physiological Investigations

Language, Truth, and Grammar

December 29, 2020/13 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Language, Truth, and Grammar   It would be convenient if only true statements were grammatical. Then we would be able to read truth-value off grammar. Falsehood would be signaled by ungrammaticality. But of course false statements are as grammatical as true ones. Grammar is completely indifferent to truth. The world is what determines […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-12-29 12:14:132020-12-29 12:14:13Language, Truth, and Grammar

Two Dogmas of Rationalism

December 26, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Two Dogmas of Rationalism   We may suppose the rationalist to hold two theses: (a) there is an analytic-synthetic distinction, and (b) the meaning of statements can be reduced to the innate ideas expressed or denoted by the terms in them. Since rationalism accords priority to a priori statements, the odd member of the […]

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Inverted Positivism

December 26, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Inverted Positivism   I wish to introduce you to the work of an obscure Austrian philosopher. His name is Otto Otto and he lives in the suburbs of Vienna.  [1] He belongs to a group called the Vienna Oval by facetious analogy with the better-known Vienna Circle. Otto (you can take this to be […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-12-26 16:24:322020-12-26 16:24:32Inverted Positivism

Studying the Brain

December 24, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Studying the Brain   Brain studies have proceeded apace since that clump of grey tissue in our heads was tapped as the basis of mind. First it was inspected with the naked eye, prodded and poked; then dissected and anatomized; then stained and examined under a microscope; then electrically recorded, grossly and minutely; and […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-12-24 15:08:082020-12-24 15:11:23Studying the Brain

Mental and Physical Events

December 22, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Mental and Physical Events   Identity of properties is one thing; identity of particulars is another. Particulars can be identical without their properties all being identical. This is obvious: Superman is identical to Clark Kent but the property of being a flying man is not identical to the property of being a journalist. It […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-12-22 14:15:462020-12-22 14:15:46Mental and Physical Events
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