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Memory and Expectation

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

Memory and Expectation How do memory and expectation differ? For example, I might remember going to the shops yesterday and expect to go to the shops tomorrow—how do these states of mind differ? They concern the same state of affairs, but they are evidently not the same; we never confuse one with the other (“Am […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-13 12:56:342024-06-13 12:56:34Memory and Expectation

Eliminating Common Sense

June 10, 2024/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Eliminating Common Sense Russell said that ordinary language contains the metaphysics of the Stone Age. Wittgenstein says that philosophy leaves everything as it is. Both were wrong. Ordinary language contains no metaphysics at all, ancient or modern; and advanced philosophy does not leave primitive philosophy alone. The bore in the bar telling you “his philosophy” […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-10 15:02:562024-06-10 15:02:56Eliminating Common Sense

Common Sense and Philosophy

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

Common Sense and Philosophy Philosophers often assume that there is something called common sense, or commonsense belief, with which their theories may agree or disagree. This gives rise to the idea that there is such a thing as commonsense philosophy, or anti-commonsense philosophy. I think this is a mistake for a number of reasons. The […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-08 13:18:162024-06-08 13:18:16Common Sense and Philosophy

Awfulness

June 6, 2024/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Awfulness Have you noticed how awful everything has become? Pop music is awful, movies are awful, most TV is awful, novels are awful, the New York Review of Books is awful, the universities are awful (students, administrators, professors), politicians are really awful, comedy is awful, art is awful, academic philosophy is awful, world politics is […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-06 12:37:572024-06-06 16:51:41Awfulness

Qualities of Mind

June 6, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Qualities of Mind Galileo, Descartes and Locke divided the physical world into primary and secondary qualities, thus carving out a place for the science of physics (the study of the primary qualities of matter). But they said nothing about the primary and secondary qualities of the mind, in the hope of carving out a place […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-06 12:03:432024-06-06 12:03:43Qualities of Mind

Primary and Secondary Values

June 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Primary and Secondary Values It has been suggested that moral values can be compared to secondary qualities, thus aligning them with human-centered attributes.[1] To be good or right is to be disposed to elicit attitudes of approval from observers—that kind of thing. I will propose something different: the whole apparatus of primary and secondary qualities […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-04 13:13:552024-06-04 13:13:55Primary and Secondary Values

Knowledge of Primary and Secondary Qualities

June 1, 2024/1 Comment/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Knowledge of Primary and Secondary Qualities We normally think we know the shapes and colors of things: I know, for example, that the cup in front of me is cylindrical and blue. But reflection casts doubt on this commonsense assumption, in two ways. First, there is the question of whether I really know that the […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-06-01 13:33:242024-06-01 13:33:24Knowledge of Primary and Secondary Qualities

Wing Surfing

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

Wing Surfing Yesterday I went wing surfing for the second time with my friend Eddy in his boat. We were in Biscayne Bay, far out but in shallow water, virtually alone. I was using an inflatable paddle board and a 4.5 meter wing, which also had to be inflated (it’s a work-out). Despite my familiarity […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-05-30 14:38:092024-05-30 14:39:39Wing Surfing

Explaining Knowledge

May 29, 2024/11 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Explaining Knowledge We have many kinds of knowledge: perceptual, introspective, scientific, linguistic, ethical, logical, mathematical, aesthetic, historical, and others. Epistemologists have asked which of these is best justified, and which least justified. We should be able to rank them for degree of justification: introspective and mathematical knowledge might get high marks for justification, perceptual and […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-05-29 13:59:002024-05-29 13:59:00Explaining Knowledge

Bat Science

May 27, 2024/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Bat Science What does the science of bats (Chiroptera) include? There are 1,400 species of bats and they make up 20% of all mammals. Many of them use an echolocation sense, though not all. We can expect a science of bats to deal with their anatomy, evolution, physiology, and psychology. With respect to the first […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-05-27 12:41:552024-05-27 16:10:22Bat Science
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