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Insult

October 20, 2025/3 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

From me to Jennifer Hudin: I feel I haven’t insulted American philosophers enough. Perhaps we should do a joint insult. Colin Her reply: Would love to insult American Philosophers. I was planning to do so at the memorial.    And you are right. It is American philosophers who are the worst offenders. Jennifer I edited […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-20 18:06:262025-10-20 18:08:57Insult

Bread Philosophy

October 20, 2025/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Bread Philosophy What do fire, metamorphosis, and bread have on common? Transformation. One thing becomes another thing—a better thing. Potential is unlocked; the hidden is made manifest. Nature performs miracles. Water becomes wine. Bread is made from just water and flour aided by a transformative agent (yeast). Every culture has it, but it was a […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-20 13:15:482025-10-20 13:15:48Bread Philosophy

Existence, Essence, and Time

October 17, 2025/13 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Existence, Essence, and Time The traditional view was that essence precedes existence: things have essences before they come to exist. This makes sense if the thing in question is designed: the designer has its essence in mind before he makes it, e.g., a carpenter making a table. It also makes sense if there is no […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-17 18:45:182025-10-17 18:45:18Existence, Essence, and Time

Thumb Fretting

October 17, 2025/3 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Thumb Fretting As dedicated readers know, I am all about the hand. Lately, my left hand has been impressing me mightily: it has been throwing knives with confidence and panache; it has really come into its own on the tennis backhand; and its fingers have been performing nimbly on the guitar. Even my left baby […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-17 14:15:102025-10-17 14:21:51Thumb Fretting

Psychology of Philosophy

October 16, 2025/7 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Psychology of Philosophy Probably every field of study has its own distinctive type of psychology. A certain type of mind will be drawn to a particular subject. It is not difficult to see how this pairing proceeds. If you are interested in people, you will naturally be drawn to psychology; not so if you are […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-16 16:46:052025-10-16 16:47:57Psychology of Philosophy

Elvis, Paul, and Mick

October 15, 2025/9 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Elvis, Paul, and Mick Some bands achieve considerable success but without mega-success. Elvis and the Beatles created worldwide mania (and hysteria); the Who and the Troggs did not. True, Elvis and the Beatles were supremely talented and enormously productive, but their success exceeds such attributes. Why? The Stones are an intermediate case: large success but […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-15 15:42:492025-10-15 15:42:49Elvis, Paul, and Mick

The Part Problem

October 15, 2025/8 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

The Part Problem People talk about the mind-brain problem, but that is strictly inaccurate. The problem isn’t about how the brain as a whole produces consciousness; it’s about how some of it does. It isn’t about how the brain differs from other bodily organs; it’s about how certain parts of it do. The various parts […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-15 15:41:022025-10-15 15:41:02The Part Problem

Searle on Mind and Brain

October 15, 2025/11 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Searle on Mind and Brain Searle maintained that the mind is a higher-level property of the brain, not a separate substance. There is only the physical world with higher- and lower-level descriptions. This is his solution to the mind-body problem. He liked to compare the mental to the liquid: there is only a world of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-15 15:04:342025-10-15 15:04:34Searle on Mind and Brain

Animal Induction

October 14, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Animal Induction Hume argued that induction is based on custom not reason. We believe in induction because we are psychologically built that way by nature not by ratiocination. He could have cited the case of animals: they act according to induction by instinct; they were not taught to do so or employ a priori reflection. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-14 19:39:322025-10-14 19:43:19Animal Induction

Etc.

October 14, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Etc. The hostages were released and President Trump may have had something to do with it. Pam Bondi went full Mr. Hyde. RFK talked more twaddle. I detest and despise X, Y and Z. I managed to play Wipe Out using only my little finger. After 12 hours of interviews, I have reached my time […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-10-14 13:36:592025-10-14 13:36:59Etc.
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