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A New Seven Deadly Sins

June 5, 2025/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

A New Seven Deadly Sins I reject the old list of deadly sins, but what do I put in its place? The following: cowardice, conformity, credulity, malicious envy, stupidity, irrationality, ideology. These are mainly designed to fit contemporary academics, particularly American philosophers.

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-06-05 14:07:572025-06-05 14:07:57A New Seven Deadly Sins

Semantics of Sin

June 5, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Semantics of Sin We all know about the so-called seven deadly sins: envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath. These are curious words; we do well to delve into their meaning. What is the correct semantic theory of sin words? We can contrast these words with other words in the moral vocabulary: murder, theft, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-06-05 13:43:122025-06-05 13:43:12Semantics of Sin

Absurd Cults

June 3, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Absurd Cults One of the more hilarious aspects of my situation has received virtually no attention. The university actually accused me of trying to start a cult. Yes, you read that right—I am (or was) an aspiring cult leader! True, this is not against university rules, so I couldn’t be formally charged with it; but […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-06-03 15:18:512025-06-03 15:18:51Absurd Cults

Bald Eagles and Religion

June 3, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Bald Eagles and Religion Religion is typically composed of beliefs, emotions, and practices. These are logically detachable. In particular, existential beliefs in respect of supernatural entities are not necessary to the existence of religious emotions and practices. In fact, they can undermine such emotions and practices if they are wildly implausible or rebarbative. If people […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-06-03 14:21:272025-06-03 14:21:27Bald Eagles and Religion

Anger and Lust

June 2, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Anger and Lust Anger is closely related to hatred. The OED gives us “strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility” for “anger”. For “hate” we have “intense dislike; strong aversion”. Hatred typically begins in anger at a perceived wrong; anger becomes hatred. It isn’t exactly the same as anger: there can be hatred without anger […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-06-02 17:15:192025-06-02 17:15:19Anger and Lust

Darwinian Theology

May 31, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Darwinian Theology Suppose we marry zoolatry with modern evolutionary science: what kind of offspring do we get? Are the two compatible or do we get only sterility? I think they are perfectly compatible and that we deliver an attractive baby; indeed, something with considerable power—scientifically and spiritually. We get a Darwinian religion, a science of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-05-31 13:07:302025-05-31 13:07:30Darwinian Theology

Beastly Religion

May 29, 2025/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Beastly Religion I was watching a documentary about insects last night (Bugs that Rule the World). I was interested to discover that bugs are big in Japan, particularly butterflies, fireflies, and stag beetles (kids have them as pets). Butterflies are prized for their beauty, elegance, and otherworldliness. The attitude is vaguely religious (actually not so […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-05-29 14:34:052025-05-29 16:13:29Beastly Religion

Explicable Knowledge

May 28, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Explicable Knowledge Suppose I don’t know where my phone is; it could be in a number of places in the house. I look around and find it on top of my desk, thereby coming to know that my phone is on my desk. This is a paradigm case of perceptual knowledge—knowledge by means of the […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-05-28 17:14:302025-05-28 17:14:30Explicable Knowledge

Good False Theories

May 27, 2025/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Good False Theories In what does the goodness of false philosophical theories consist? How can a theory be good and yet false? To be good a theory must have certain attributes: clarity, simplicity, interestingness, the ability to solve problems, integration with other theories, and explanatory power. Generally, it avoids mystery and provides a reduction of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-05-27 16:12:382025-05-27 16:20:39Good False Theories

False Good Ideas

May 26, 2025/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

False Good Ideas There should be a category of false good ideas: ideas that are clever and appealing but clearly false. These ideas will tend to catch on despite their obvious falsity, because they appear to solve problems. Most of philosophy is made up of these ideas; they might be said to constitute the subject. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2025-05-26 15:29:222025-05-27 18:18:20False Good Ideas
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