Colin McGinn
  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Video
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Menu Menu

Blog

Time and Rock n’ Roll

September 12, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Time and Rock n’ Roll We all take a beating from time. Each day, over a lifetime. We can’t beat time. But we can beat to time. Rock n’ roll is our attempt to master time, to fight time back. It’s not about sex, it’s about the need to dominate time. That’s why the drums […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-12 15:29:422023-09-12 15:29:42Time and Rock n’ Roll

Being and Doing

September 12, 2023/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Being and Doing Two highly general concepts run through the history of philosophy (and science): being and doing. They shape how the subject is conceptualized, yet they don’t tend to be considered in their own right. It is true that both concepts are hard to articulate, and their interrelations are obscure. Here I will describe […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-12 13:06:342023-09-12 13:06:34Being and Doing

Coco Wins! But…

September 10, 2023/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Coco played beautifully and thoroughly deserved her win. But the weakness in her forehand is undeniable (and frequently commented upon). By contrast her backhand is solid as a rock and very powerful. Why the difference? Because she uses a two-handed backhand and a one-handed forehand: she obviously gets help from her left hand on the […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-10 15:35:152023-09-10 15:37:32Coco Wins! But…

Metaphysical Necessity Reexamined

September 10, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Metaphysical Necessity Reexamined When Kripke introduced the phrase “metaphysical necessity” in Naming and Necessity he didn’t say much about the nature of this type of necessity beyond distinguishing it from the a priori and so-called epistemic necessity. These are his words: “The second concept which is in question is that of necessity. Sometimes this is […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-10 13:23:542023-09-10 13:23:54Metaphysical Necessity Reexamined

Easy Cosmology

September 8, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Easy Cosmology It took over 2000 years to discover the correct cosmology: the one formulated by Isaac Newton. The features of this cosmology include a heliocentric solar system, a moving earth (diurnal and annual), a unified theory of terrestrial and celestial motion, a universal force of gravity, elliptical orbits, and an account of moons, comets, […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-08 13:11:262023-09-08 13:11:26Easy Cosmology

Angry

September 7, 2023/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Yesterday the Stones released their first album of original material in 18 years. I watched the video of the new single “Angry With Me” and am happy to report that it is a triumph. The record rocks. Good drumming, great guitar licks, and Mick in fine voice. The video stars the incomparable Sydney Sweeney who […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-07 18:54:282023-09-07 18:54:28Angry

An Argument Against Skepticism

September 6, 2023/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

An Argument Against Skepticism The skeptic claims that we are wrong to credit ourselves with knowledge. Our belief that we possess knowledge is a false belief: we make an error when we ascribe knowledge to ourselves. But why do we make this error? On this question the skeptic is strangely silent: we are not told […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-06 13:20:392023-09-06 13:20:39An Argument Against Skepticism

Astronomy, Mysticism, and Mechanism

September 1, 2023/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Astronomy, Mysticism, and Mechanism Astronomy has always been linked with mysticism. The gods of the sun, moon, and stars; the belief in astrology; the supposed geometrical perfection of celestial motions; the Empyrean Heaven; the spiritual meaning of celestial phenomena; the awe inspired by the “starry heavens” (Kant); the assumption of a superlunary realm of being […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-09-01 15:30:042023-09-01 15:30:04Astronomy, Mysticism, and Mechanism

Novels

August 31, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Novels Someone once described my first novel Bad Patches as a “punk existentialist” novel. I thought this an apt description. Written in the early Eighties, when punk was still alive and kicking in the UK (“Anarchy In”), the central character, Dave Green, is abrasive, abusive, resentful, unpleasant to be around, and generally repellent—though not without […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-08-31 15:39:412023-08-31 15:39:41Novels

Einstein and Hume

August 30, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Einstein and Hume It is well known that Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity was influenced by his reading of Hume’s Treatise. People sometimes applaud this for revealing Einstein’s openness to philosophy. To me it suggests a different lesson. Einstein will have read Hume from the perspective of contemporary positivism, interpreting him accordingly. A.J. Ayer also […]

Read more
0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2023-08-30 13:15:002023-08-30 13:15:00Einstein and Hume
Page 2 of 116‹1234›»

Categories

  • Meaning
  • Mind
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • Skepticism
  • Sport
  • Uncategorized

Archives

  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • June 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • September 2009
  • May 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

© 2020 Copyright - Colin Mcginn - Enfold WordPress Theme by Kriesi
Scroll to top