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Scientific Knowledge

August 4, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Scientific Knowledge   No doubt scientific knowledge is impressive and enchanting: science has learned so much of interest about the world, with many practical applications. The human brain is lucky to be able to obtain and contain such knowledge. It looks like the best knowledge on planet Earth; if there were a competition […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-08-04 13:42:062020-08-04 13:42:06Scientific Knowledge

What is Nature?

August 1, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    What is Nature?   What falls under the concept of nature and what does not? What does the concept include and what does it exclude? The OED defines “nature” as follows: “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, and the landscape, as opposed to humans or human creations”. The Cambridge […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-08-01 15:29:002020-08-01 15:29:00What is Nature?

General Reactivity Theory

July 29, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    General Reactivity Theory   Consider the simple reflex: the blink reflex or the patellar reflex, for example. There is a stimulus and a response: the stimulus is an impinging physical event and the response is a movement of the body. The stimulus elicits the response without any psychological intermediary; the reflex arc exists […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-29 12:34:232020-07-29 12:34:23General Reactivity Theory

Action, Reaction, and Reflex

July 27, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Action, Reaction, and Reflex     Analytical philosophy of action typically begins by distinguishing between mere reflexes and intentional actions. The blink reflex and the patellar reflex involve bodily movements with no psychological intermediaries, while bodily movements like directing traffic are prompted by beliefs and desires. The philosopher then declares that he or […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-27 13:45:472020-07-27 13:45:47Action, Reaction, and Reflex

Complex Minds

July 23, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Complex Minds     I wish to make a very general point about the complexity of the mind—not just the human mind but minds generally. There has been a tendency to think that the mind is relatively simple: it consists of simple ideas and principles of combination of these ideas; or it is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-23 14:02:512020-07-23 14:02:51Complex Minds

Agnosticism

July 22, 2020/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Agnosticism   The word “agnostic” was coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869. I am concerned here with what state of mind is denoted by this word not with whether agnosticism is the correct position. I think it is commonly assumed that it denotes a state of mind that is neither belief nor disbelief: […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-22 12:51:412020-07-22 12:51:41Agnosticism

Language and Music

July 18, 2020/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Language and Music     What kind of phenomenon is language? I shall consider this question by comparing language with music—though I shall also be concerned with what kind of phenomenon music is, especially toward the end. Language occupies a curious no-man’s land, being neither purely external not purely internal.[1] We can talk to […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-18 15:09:242020-07-18 15:09:24Language and Music

Problems with Panpsychism

July 18, 2020/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Problems with Panpsychism   I will list as concisely as possible a number of problems that I see with panpsychism. Panpsychism comes in two forms, partial and total. Partial panpsychism says that all matter has a mental aspect as well as a physical aspect; total panpsychism says that all matter is wholly mental. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-18 13:21:282020-07-18 13:21:28Problems with Panpsychism

Constructing a World

July 14, 2020/15 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Constructing a World     Imagine yourself a deity idling away your days. It occurs to you to do something with your life (and the peer pressure has been mounting), so you decide to construct a world. The activity is new to you and you have never taken lessons, so you have to […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-14 12:41:552020-07-14 12:41:55Constructing a World

Properties As Functions

July 11, 2020/11 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Properties as Functions     I have always thought that there is something right in Frege’s idea that concepts are functions from objects to truth-values. Bear in mind that for Frege concepts are not psychological or subjective entities, nor are they senses, but rather belong at the level of reference, like objects. They […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2020-07-11 13:34:002020-07-11 13:34:06Properties As Functions
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