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Joshua Katz

May 26, 2022/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

Joshua Katz   Let’s be clear, the treatment of Professor Joshua Katz is just the latest example of American stupidity, hysteria, callousness, violence, cowardice, and general vileness to occur in American universities. How people can justify this evil is beyond me. As for his so-called friends—the ones who ran for the hills for rather obvious […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-26 22:02:052022-05-26 22:02:05Joshua Katz

Ed Erwin (1937-2022)

May 20, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

Ed was a genuinely good man–and reviled for it. He was tough and gentle at the same time. He was also an exceptionally good philosopher. 

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-20 14:39:272022-05-20 14:39:27Ed Erwin (1937-2022)

Holism and Existence

May 13, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Holism and Existence   Holism is an ontological doctrine: it says that the existence, nature and identity of individual things depend on their place in a wider whole consisting of other individual things. To be a certain entity is to stand in a network of related entities: the being of one thing is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-13 13:46:262022-05-13 13:46:26Holism and Existence

Morality as a System of Categorical Modals

May 11, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Morality as a System of Categorical Modals   We express our moral beliefs in sentences like these: “Murder is wrong”, “Stealing is wrong”, “Generosity is good”, and “Violence is bad”. What do they mean? Some have said they are equivalent to categorical imperatives, others suggest that hypothetical imperatives provide a better analysis; the concepts […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-11 20:12:462022-05-11 20:12:46Morality as a System of Categorical Modals

Driving and Abortion

May 9, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Driving and Abortion   It is legal to drive. But driving causes death. So if we are pro-life, we should be anti-driving. Therefore driving should be made illegal. Moreover, drivers know the risks they run by driving—there is a non-zero probability that they will kill someone in an accident—so it is unethical of them […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-09 15:36:172022-05-09 15:36:20Driving and Abortion

Abortion and the Body

May 9, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Abortion and the Body   We hear it argued that a woman has the right to abort her unborn baby because she has a right to choose what happens to her own body. This is a bad argument. First, it begs the question: an opponent will insist that the fetus is not part […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-09 15:09:262022-05-09 15:09:26Abortion and the Body

Philosophy as Surgery

May 4, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Philosophy as Surgery   The other day I was discussing a medical matter with my son, who is a surgeon, and he remarked, “I would take a knife to it”. The remark stuck with me and I began wondering if philosophy bears any analogy to surgery. Do we in philosophy ever “take a […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-05-04 13:52:402022-05-04 13:52:40Philosophy as Surgery

Two Types of Empiricism

April 29, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

    Two Types of Empiricism   Type I empiricism says that all knowledge comes through the five senses. Type II empiricism says that all knowledge derives from experience. Neither entails the other. The senses could be the sole source of knowledge without being conduits of experience: the process might be entirely physical-causal, or proceed […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-04-29 14:34:492022-04-29 14:34:49Two Types of Empiricism

Footnote to “Social Cognition and the Unconscious”

April 21, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

[1] This doesn’t mean there is nothing “erotic” about the unconscious: there is room for the erotic in all sorts of personal relations, and indeed in the joys of discovery (“Eureka!”). In psychoanalysis the erotic is understood as the “life force” (anima in Plato) and contrasted with Thanatos (the “death instinct”). We can preserve this […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-04-21 14:22:432022-04-21 14:22:43Footnote to “Social Cognition and the Unconscious”

Social Cognition and the Unconscious

April 21, 2022/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Colin McGinn

  Social Cognition and the Unconscious   It is generally recognized in psychology that a good deal of problem solving goes on unconsciously. We can solve problems as we sleep with no expression of this mental activity in consciousness. This can happen with scientific problems, mathematical problems, literary problems, and practical problems of various kinds. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2022-04-21 14:19:292022-04-21 14:19:29Social Cognition and the Unconscious
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