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Reality and Appearance

August 14, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Reality and Appearance Appearances are part of reality, even when they are illusions; they are real things, no less so when not representing reality correctly. But is reality part of appearance? Certainly, not all reality is presented in appearances, since some parts of reality have appeared to no one (unless we include God). But is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-08-14 12:46:032024-08-14 12:46:03Reality and Appearance

Emotional Logic

August 13, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Emotional Logic The idea that emotions are exempt from logic is widely received. Emotion is supposed to be where logic breaks down, where the mind eludes logic’s inexorable grip. It is the domain of the unruly, the irrational, the unprincipled—a kind of mental anarchy. This is wrong on several levels. Of course, emotions are subject […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-08-13 13:31:562024-08-13 13:31:56Emotional Logic

Emotion and Logic

August 8, 2024/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Emotion and Logic Are they compatible? Is it possible to be an emotional being and a logical being? More exactly, is it possible to be perfectly logical but also emotional? Is emotion always the enemy of logic? In Star Trek we find a defense of the thesis that emotion and logic are incompatible, or an […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-08-08 12:17:332024-08-08 12:17:33Emotion and Logic

My Secret Garden

July 30, 2024/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

My Secret Garden I live in South Miami, just outside Coral Gables. I have an extensive garden, with much tropical vegetation. My study has a door onto this garden; I go out there a fair amount. It has a jungle feel. In this garden I have a full-size competition-level trampoline shaded by trees. I also […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-30 14:50:152024-07-30 14:50:15My Secret Garden

Four Ways of Studying Language

July 30, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Four Ways of Studying Language What is the linguist or philosopher of language studying? It will be useful to distinguish four different (but overlapping) areas of study: ontological, epistemological, behavioral, and phenomenological. By “ontological” I mean the study of language as a formal object: its nature, structure, and inner workings. What is it composed of? […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-30 12:49:082024-07-30 12:49:08Four Ways of Studying Language

Phenomenology of Language

July 27, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Phenomenology of Language Suppose we undertake a phenomenological investigation of human speech (we leave Vulcan speech to the Vulcans). What distinctions will we need to make? What categories must we adopt? What methods should we use? What precedents should we cite? Obviously, we will need a speaker-hearer distinction, as well as distinctions between inner speech […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-27 12:00:032024-07-27 12:29:58Phenomenology of Language

Consciousness and Language

July 25, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Consciousness and Language Consciousness science has not yet penetrated the field of linguistics, but clearly consciousness and language have a lot to do with each other. How are the two related? They are salient features of the human animal and we would expect to see significant interactions between them. Yet linguistics and philosophy of language […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-25 13:52:272024-07-25 13:52:27Consciousness and Language

Act and Object Dismantled

July 23, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Act and Object Dismantled Things are getting scary around here, philosophically. Paradigms are shifting, shattering, vaporizing before our very eyes (literally). The act-object analysis of conscious experience is in deep trouble. The senses have no objects! There is no object such that a visual experience is a seeing of it. Not physical, not mental, and […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-23 10:52:282024-07-23 13:48:07Act and Object Dismantled

Are We Blind?

July 19, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Are We Blind? I can state the argument of this paper very succinctly: we don’t see matter and we don’t see mind; therefore, we don’t see anything; therefore, we are blind. I think this argument is sound. Moreover, it generalizes: we don’t hear or touch or smell or taste anything; therefore, we are deaf, etc. […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-19 13:25:052024-07-19 16:23:41Are We Blind?

Consciousness and Solipsism

July 17, 2024/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Consciousness and Solipsism This is to be an essay in existential psychotherapy, proceeding from a sound basis in the metaphysics of consciousness. It is going to be pretty abstract and theoretical, though with a practical payoff (sort of). We can begin with the old thought that consciousness (the conscious self) is an isolated thing as […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-07-17 12:43:132024-07-17 12:43:13Consciousness and Solipsism
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