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The Ballad of Dolores Haze

April 23, 2021/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  I have been writing songs lately, so I thought I’d share this one with you: think of it as sung in Country and Western style.    The Ballad of Dolores Haze   He broke my heart But you broke my life He was a creature of art You were a monster equipped with a […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-23 12:58:162021-04-23 12:58:16The Ballad of Dolores Haze

Partial Skepticism

April 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Partial Skepticism   The solipsist is a partial skeptic: he doubts the existence of other beings, sentient or otherwise, but he doesn’t doubt his own existence. He might go on positively to affirm that nothing exists but himself. He favors one object over all others. What is the analogue of this for the material […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-22 15:52:402021-04-22 15:52:40Partial Skepticism

Stereotypes

April 20, 2021/12 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Stereotypes   Wittgenstein warned against the “craving for generality”: the mistaken desire to find uniformity where there is only diversity. Thus philosophers are apt to suppose that all words are names, all sentences are assertions, and all states of mind are experiential—despite a heterogeneity that is evident to unbiased inspection. In a word, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-20 12:39:262021-04-20 12:39:26Stereotypes

Ignorance and Solipsism

April 16, 2021/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Ignorance and Solipsism   Is it possible to refute solipsism-of-the-moment? Is it possible to show that there must be more to the world than oneself and one’s current state of consciousness? The standard approach has been to assert that certain propositions about the world beyond consciousness are indubitable—say, the proposition that I have […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-16 12:47:422021-04-16 12:47:42Ignorance and Solipsism

How Things Really Look

April 14, 2021/5 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  How Things Really Look   I wish to defend the legitimacy of a metaphysical concept that I have not seen discussed before: the concept of what might be called objective appearance. We are familiar with the concept of subjective appearance—the ways things appear to specific organisms with specific sensory faculties. These vary from case […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-14 13:06:172021-04-15 16:01:51How Things Really Look

Papers and Posts

April 13, 2021/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Let me clarify something: the essays I post here are not really intended as conventional blog posts. They are papers I write as part of my ongoing research. I publish them here because it is easier and quicker than going through the usual publication channels, which for various reasons is not feasible for me now. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-13 15:07:312021-04-13 15:07:31Papers and Posts

Pathological Belief

April 11, 2021/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Pathological Belief   There is something funny about belief: belief isn’t quite right in the head. The human belief system leaves a lot to be desired. Philosophers have been onto this for a while, noting the peculiarities of belief. Early on it was noticed that belief reports are referentially opaque: you can’t substitute […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-11 12:49:302021-04-11 12:49:30Pathological Belief

Why Does Consciousness Exist?

April 9, 2021/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Why Does Consciousness Exist?   I mean this question to be a question of biology: what adaptive purpose was served by the evolution of consciousness? Consciousness, like other biological traits, evolved because it contributed to the survival of the organisms that possess it, so there must be an answer to the question of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-09 13:48:092021-04-09 13:48:09Why Does Consciousness Exist?

Mind and Behavior

April 7, 2021/5 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Mind and Behavior   Philosophical behaviorism has a curious reputation: on the one hand, it can seem eminently reasonable, on the other, completely wrong. Thus it is natural to be uncomfortably ambivalent about it, veering from acceptance to rejection as the mood strikes. On the side of rejection we have the inverted spectrum, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-07 12:12:202021-04-07 12:12:20Mind and Behavior

Religion as Science

April 1, 2021/10 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Religion as Science   I wish to put forward an unfashionable and provokingly simple point of view: religion is just outmoded science. Religion is the science of an earlier age, yet still clinging on in some places. I don’t just mean the cosmological parts; I also include ethics. That is, religion consists of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2021-04-01 14:36:302021-04-01 14:36:30Religion as Science
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