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The National Psyche

June 6, 2020/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

The combination of Covid19, Trump, and police brutality is producing a toxic mixture of fear, anger, impotence, and disgust that is afflicting the national psyche. Who knows where it will lead. Therapists stand to prosper. I myself am suffering from an acute case of America-phobia.

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-06-06 13:21:072020-06-06 13:22:22The National Psyche

Is Natural Selection Physical?

June 2, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Is Natural Selection Physical?   Is Darwin’s theory of evolution a physical theory? Does anything mental enter into its explanatory apparatus? There are two main components to the theory: mutation and natural selection. It might well seem that these are both entirely physical phenomena, because mutation is just chance genetic change (change in the […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-06-02 13:11:422020-06-02 13:11:42Is Natural Selection Physical?

Aesthetic and Moral Syllogisms

May 29, 2020/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Aesthetic and Moral Syllogisms     Consider the proposition “x is aesthetically better than y”: does this entail the proposition “I should engage with xin preference to y”? One might suppose so, but in fact it doesn’t, unless we add something like “other things being equal”. If x is more intellectual demanding than y and […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-29 15:41:282020-05-29 15:41:28Aesthetic and Moral Syllogisms

How Mysterious is Evolution?

May 29, 2020/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

How Mysterious is Evolution?     The basic mechanism of evolution is not mysterious at all. Random variation combined with natural selection is a fully intelligible means of biological change, perspicuously accounting for speciation. The abstract idea has a mathematical simplicity to it: (a) a process for generating outcomes at random, and (b) a method […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-29 15:39:152020-05-29 15:39:15How Mysterious is Evolution?

Woody Allen’s Memoir

May 29, 2020/9 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I had the pleasure of reading A Propos of Nothing recently and greatly enjoyed it. If you are interested in Woody’s personal history and his many films, this book will sate your appetite: funny, impressive, and endearing. As to the allegations made against him, he convincingly refutes them, thereby demonstrating the absurdity and corruption of the […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-29 13:15:062020-05-29 13:17:01Woody Allen’s Memoir

Predator Blues

May 26, 2020/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Predator Blues     We humans have a tendency to admire, even envy, what we are pleased to call apex predators: big cats, eagles, sharks, polar bears, and the like. We thrill to their powerful jaws, vice-like talons, speed, agility, and ruthlessness. No one pushes them around, they dominate their worlds: king of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-26 15:42:062020-05-26 15:42:06Predator Blues

The Mind Problem

May 25, 2020/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  The Mind Problem     What makes body possible? What are the conditions of the possibility of material objects? Space: bodies are essentially extended things and space is the home of extended things. Without space body would be impossible; with it body slots smoothly into place. Space and body are intelligibly connected, made for […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-25 14:09:592020-05-25 14:09:59The Mind Problem

Species Psychology

May 23, 2020/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Species Psychology     It is an interesting zoological fact that animals don’t sexually desire animals outside their own species (excluding pathological cases). A particular species may not strike us as sexually desirable, but within it we may suppose that sexual desire runs high; even the most beautiful species on earth will not attract […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-23 13:04:292020-05-23 13:04:29Species Psychology

The Concept of Life

May 20, 2020/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  The Concept of Life     The concept of life is notoriously hard to define. The OED makes a decent stab at it with the following: “The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, functional activity, and continual change preceding death”. The first part of this is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-20 13:22:402020-05-20 13:22:40The Concept of Life

Phenomenological Knowledge

May 15, 2020/11 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Phenomenological Knowledge     There is debate concerning our ability to know the nature of alien consciousness, but there is no debate concerning our ability to know the nature of our own consciousness. It is argued that we can’t know what it is like to be a bat, but accepted that we can know what […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-05-15 16:03:312020-05-15 16:03:31Phenomenological Knowledge
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