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Space etc

January 25, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Space, Time, and Matter: A Note     It is sometimes said, jokingly, that it is fortunate time exists or else everything would happen simultaneously. We could also say, jokingly, that it is fortunate space exists or else everything would have to be in the same place. If space existed but time didn’t, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-25 01:50:272019-01-25 01:50:27Space etc

A New Riddle of Induction

January 25, 2019/5 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

A New Riddle of Induction   Suppose that tomorrow the sun does not rise, bread does not nourish, and swans are blue. Does that show that nature is not uniform, that the past is not projectable to the future, and that induction has broken down? Can we conclude that what we observe tomorrow does not […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-25 01:40:592019-01-25 01:40:59A New Riddle of Induction

A Problem in Hume

January 25, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    A Problem in Hume       Early in the TreatiseHume sets out to establish what he calls a “general proposition”, namely: “That all our simple ideas in their first appearance are deriv’d from simple impressions, which are correspondent to them, and which they exactly represent” (Book I, Section I, p.52).[1]What kind of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-25 01:28:262019-01-25 01:28:26A Problem in Hume

Jane Austen on Morality

January 22, 2019/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Jane Austen’s Moral Universe     Jane Austen is the most moral of writers, but what is her morality? What values does she espouse and promote? That is not an easy question, given the elusiveness of the authorial mind and the gap between life and art, but I propose to deal with an […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-22 15:54:292019-01-22 15:54:29Jane Austen on Morality

Jane Austen on Memory

January 17, 2019/3 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Memory Illusions     In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, a thoughtful and unassuming young woman, makes the following observations to a certain Miss Crawford: “If any one faculty of our nature may be called morewonderful than the rest, I do believe it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-17 19:56:072019-01-17 19:56:07Jane Austen on Memory

Semantics Politicized

January 15, 2019/11 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Multi-Dimensional (Inclusive) Semantics     I address you today in a spirit of inclusiveness and diversity. For too long semantics (theory of meaning) has been the confine of a single type of entity held to constitute all that meaning encompasses (or a couple of entities, closely related).  We must broaden our horizons and recognize […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-15 16:46:142019-01-15 16:46:14Semantics Politicized

Thoughts and Things

January 12, 2019/1 Comment/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    External Conditions of Thought     The idea of the singular proposition is that propositions can contain particulars as well as universals as their constituents. If I think that that bird is pretty, my thought’s content contains both a particular bird and the general property of being pretty. Thus a singular thought has […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-12 14:21:472019-01-12 14:21:47Thoughts and Things

Tricky Cogito

January 9, 2019/9 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  Existence and theCogito     The Cogitostrikes most people as intuitively valid, but it has been trenchantly criticized. How exactly the inference is supposed to work still excites controversy. Here I will consider a line of objection that I have not seen pressed before. The natural way to interpret the inference is that it […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-09 15:56:122019-01-09 15:56:12Tricky Cogito

Moral Distance

January 5, 2019/5 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

        Moral Distance     We tend to think that our moral obligations fall off with distance: the closer someone is to us the greater is his moral claim on us, and the further away the less. Morality operates like gravity—it weakens with distance. True, morality is an expanding circle, but it […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-01-05 14:17:282019-01-05 14:17:28Moral Distance

The Space Trap

December 30, 2018/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

I have discovered that my 1992 novel The Space Trap now exists in audio form from Amazon. I had no idea this was being done and was not informed of it. I discovered it by chance when I bought an Alexa and it started reciting the novel to me for reasons I can’t fathom. The woman […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2018-12-30 22:49:242018-12-30 22:49:24The Space Trap
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