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Stalin’s Fallacy

April 25, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Stalin famously said, “Death solves all problems–no man, no problem”. He meant that murdering people solves the problem their existence poses–hence his murder of millions of Russians who threatened to be a “problem”. I suspect many people in power have thought along similar lines–and the saying has a certain cogency. But it is important to […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-04-25 19:34:462015-04-25 19:34:46Stalin’s Fallacy

Philosophy

April 24, 2015/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Why does philosophy even exist? Is the world an inherently philosophical place? That seems unlikely. Is it our concepts that generate philosophical problems? But why should we have concepts that do that? Does it show there is something deeply wrong with our concepts? And why are we so confused, if conceptual confusions are the problem? […]

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Philosophical Fun for the Whole Family

April 8, 2015/38 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

The Simulation Game     The following document recently fell into my hands:   “Report to the Commissioner of Games: We recently met to discuss, plan and implement a new game, to be called the Simulation Game (hereafter SG). For this purpose we have created a small group (about 6 billion) of individual centers of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-04-08 15:40:172015-04-08 15:40:17Philosophical Fun for the Whole Family

Blind Review

April 2, 2015/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

The obsession with blind review of journal articles is peculiar. Why not blind examining or blind book reviewing or blind job selection? Anyone entrusted with these jobs is expected to evaluate in an unbiased manner, and if they can’t they should not be so trusted. I think all information about a candidate can be useful, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-04-02 17:10:552015-04-02 17:10:55Blind Review

Serena

March 21, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I was glad Serena Williams decided to return to Indian Wells after that shameful incident 14 years ago. Her return made the point with great force and clarity. But I also am glad that Venus and their father did not return this year, because that mob behavior can never be forgotten or forgiven. It was […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-21 13:42:132015-03-21 13:42:13Serena

Conceding Intelligence

March 20, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

In footnote 76 of Naming and Necessity Kripke uses a phrase that has stuck in my mind for decades–I think of it almost every day. He is discussing the identity theory and considers the objection that his use of “correlated with” presupposes the anti-materialist position he set out to prove. He says: “Although I was […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-20 21:07:042015-03-20 21:07:04Conceding Intelligence

Jonathan Miller

March 13, 2015/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

For those who would like to read a really positive review by me, have a look at my review of the collected writings of Jonathan Miller in the latest New York Review of Books. Now that was a pleasure to write. I must have written about a hundred reviews by now, some more positive than […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-13 01:03:422015-03-13 01:03:42Jonathan Miller

Extinct humans and human limits

March 12, 2015/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I’ve been reading  Yuval Noah Harari’s best-seller Sapiens and I think it is very good. My own forthcoming book Prehension is in the same area, though I deal with human evolution before culture got started. One thing he emphasizes is that H. Sapiens once shared the planet with several other human species–Neanderthals, H. Erectus, Denisovans, and others. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-12 22:59:562015-03-12 23:01:35Extinct humans and human limits

A True Story

March 10, 2015/3 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Here’s a birthday tale: who says philosophers don’t have adventures? Any parallels and life lessons I leave to my readers to draw.       A Great Escape     Last week I went to meet a friend of mine, Greg, for a nice evening boat ride. I drove over to Monty’s restaurant in Coconut […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-10 16:44:512015-03-10 16:44:51A True Story

Downton Abbey

March 5, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

The great Downton ended its fifth season last week. I was struck till the very end by its preoccupation with matters moral: it’s not primarily about the British class system or the recent history of imperial England–it’s about right and wrong, good and evil. The good may be flawed (Lord Grantham) and the bad may […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2015-03-05 23:28:292015-03-05 23:28:29Downton Abbey
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