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What is Belief?

October 3, 2019/24 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    What is Belief?     For all the work that has been done on the topic of belief, do we really know what belief is?[1] What kind of state (if state it be) is the belief state? Two suggestions have been prominent: belief is a feeling and belief is a disposition. Either belief […]

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Knowledge and Human Nature

September 29, 2019/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Knowledge and Human Nature     An alien observer of human cognitive development would be struck by a fact he might be tempted to describe as paradoxical. This is that in the first five years or so of life development is rapid and impressive while subsequent learning tends to be slow and laborious. […]

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Are There Subjective Concepts?

September 23, 2019/6 Comments/in Philosophy/by admin

I can imagine four types of position on this question: (i) there are only subjective concepts (none are objective); (ii) there are only objective concepts (none are subjective); (iii) there are both subjective concepts and objective concepts; (iv) all concepts are both subjective and objective (in some respects). I am inclined to accept (iv), with […]

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Modal Metaphysics

September 22, 2019/0 Comments/in Philosophy/by admin

In Naming and Necessity, Kripke gives a number of examples of essential properties in order to show that not all necessities are a priori or analytic. He is not concerned to develop a general metaphysics of modality, a systematic classification of necessities and possibilities. But that project is a worthwhile one, and relatively unexplored. I […]

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Are There Subjective Reasons?

September 16, 2019/10 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

      Are There Subjective Reasons?     I like coffee and you like tea. This gives me a reason to choose coffee, but it doesn’t give you a reason to make that choice. The reason is relative to me—to my preferences. You would choose tea given the choice.  Thus we might say that […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-09-16 15:32:352019-09-16 15:32:35Are There Subjective Reasons?

A Problem In Hume

September 13, 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 proposition […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-09-13 13:05:102019-09-13 13:05:10A Problem In Hume

Is Solipsism Logically Possible?

September 13, 2019/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

    Is Solipsism Logically Possible?     It has been commonly assumed that solipsism is logically or metaphysically possible. I could exist without anything else existing. There are possible worlds in which I exist and nothing else does. I can imagine myself completely alone. Seductive as such thoughts may appear, I think they are […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2019-09-13 12:49:142019-09-13 12:50:12Is Solipsism Logically Possible?

An Obvious Theory of Truth

September 10, 2019/2 Comments/in Philosophy/by admin

Truisms are welcome in the theory of truth. Here is one: the sentence “London is rainy” if true if and only if the entity referred to by “London” has the property expressed by “rainy”. Generalizing, a sentence (or proposition) is true just in case the reference of the subject expression instantiates the property expressed by […]

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Quantifier Concepts

September 10, 2019/4 Comments/in Philosophy/by admin

Would it be quixotic to suppose that quantifiers hold the secret to human success?[1] Could the student of quantification theory be studying the ultimate differentia that separates humans from the rest of nature? That would be a delightful result for the logically minded; and I think there is actually a good deal to be said […]

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The Mind-World Nexus

September 3, 2019/34 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

  The Mind-World Nexus     According to a dominant tradition, appearances are not “in” objects: that is, how an object appears is not (completely) determined by its objective properties but depends on the mode of sensibility employed to perceive it.  The classic example is color: objects are not colored independently of how they seem […]

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