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Neanderthals

July 15, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

What a pity the neanderthals went extinct!  The world would be a very different place with them and us in it. Would we be at war with them or in harmony? Would we have enslaved them? It would be fascinating to see another version of human nature, possibly superior to the Sapiens version. Given that we […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-07-15 16:14:362015-09-17 16:36:14Neanderthals

Richard Gasquet

July 8, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I’ve always had a soft spot for Gasquet, who won today’s quarter-final against another favorite of mine, Stan Wawrinka, in a thrilling five-set match. It was a contest between the two best one-handed backhands in the world. But it’s not just Gasquet’s superb backhand that I like; I like the whole package. He is just […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-07-08 16:12:482015-09-17 16:36:14Richard Gasquet

Good Mr. Oover

July 3, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

“Mr. Oover’s moral tone, and his sense of chivalry, were of the American kind: far higher than ours, even, and far better expressed. Whereas the English guests of the Junta, when they heard the tale of Nellie O’Mora, would merely murmur ‘Poor girl!’ or ‘What a shame!’ Mr. Oover said in a tone of quiet […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-07-03 16:11:222015-09-17 16:36:14Good Mr. Oover

Max and the American

June 30, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

“And Americans, individually, are of all people the most anxious to please. That they talk overmuch is often taken as a sign of self-satisfaction. It is merely a mannerism. Rhetoric is a thing inbred in them. They are quite unconscious of it. It is as natural to them as breathing. And, while they talk on, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-30 16:06:092015-09-17 16:36:14Max and the American

Bi-marriage

June 29, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Now that same-sex marriage is legal in these United States, what about the rights of the bisexual? He or she is only allowed to marry one person at a time, thus restricting his or her expression of sexual orientation within marriage. Such a person may not believe in sex outside marriage, so that our laws […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-29 14:21:382015-06-29 14:21:38Bi-marriage

Brain Computer

June 28, 2015/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I have a proof that the brain is a computer. I am a computer (I can do calculations); I am identical to my brain; therefore my brain is a computer.

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-28 16:33:042015-06-28 16:33:04Brain Computer

The Psychology of the Mysterian

June 24, 2015/5 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

There are not many mysterians in the world, at least visible out-of-the-closet mysterians, but the following four people clearly qualify: me, Chomsky, Fodor, and Pinker. This is a large enough sample to inquire what the mysterian psychology is like–what do the four of us have in common? It might be supposed that a mysterian is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-24 18:06:432015-06-24 18:06:43The Psychology of the Mysterian

Mystery Max

June 19, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

“For proper appreciation of Maeterlinck, you must have, besides a sense of beauty, a taste for wisdom. Maeterlinck is not less a sage than a poet. Of all living thinkers whose names are known to me, he has the firmest and widest grasp of the truth. He more clearly than any other thinker is conscious […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-19 14:10:162015-06-19 14:10:16Mystery Max

Plumbing

June 12, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I had the plumbers at my house yesterday and it occurred to me to wonder: Isn’t plumbing really an instance of the “extended gut”? Isn’t it rather arbitrary where we conventionally think the digestive system leaves off? What if your colon were replaced with a PVC prosthesis and extended further out into the environment? What […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-12 14:02:172015-06-12 14:02:17Plumbing

Ad

June 4, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I see that MIT Press has put an ad for my book Philosophy of Language on Leiter’s blog, which seems kinda funny to me. On the right side is an ad for a new book by Max Deutsch, The Myth of the Intuitive, who was a PhD student of mine at Rutgers.

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-06-04 22:05:072015-06-04 22:05:07Ad
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