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Is the Universe Large?

April 16, 2024/4 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Is the Universe Large? If you study astronomy, it will be impressed upon you that the universe is large—very very very large, unimaginably so. The galaxies, their number, the distance between them, the travel times (even for light)—the universe is an extremely big object, much bigger than you thought, much bigger than anyone thought until […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-16 10:55:582024-04-28 03:11:21Is the Universe Large?

Bad Philosophers

April 8, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Bad Philosophers Time for a bit of academic sociology. Who are the world’s worst philosophers? I don’t mean which individual philosophers from within philosophy; I mean academics in other fields who like to comment on philosophy. What disciplines produce the worst philosophical commentators? We have quite a full list to choose from: physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-08 15:02:542024-04-08 15:11:36Bad Philosophers

Proof of an External World

April 6, 2024/17 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Proof of an External World Kant famously (and ruefully) remarked that it was a scandal of philosophy that it has been unable to come up with a proof of the external world. He was right: it is a matter of some embarrassment that philosophy should be unable to prove something so obvious, so commonsensical. What […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-06 11:55:452024-04-06 11:55:45Proof of an External World

Subjective and Objective

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

Subjective and Objective The distinction between subjective and objective is often used in philosophy, but it is less often articulated, still less analyzed.[1] I will do that. The task is not particularly difficult, though there are glitches to be ironed out. The distinction is well-founded and its basic nature easily understood. We can begin with […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-04 15:15:562024-04-04 15:15:56Subjective and Objective

My Left Foot

April 2, 2024/0 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

My Left Foot An update on my left hand, and then a corollary on my left foot. I can now stick a knife from about 18 feet throwing with my left hand, no spin. This is substantial progress from a month ago. I also find that my two-handed backhand, which is governed by the left […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-02 17:09:452024-04-02 17:09:45My Left Foot

Is Causation Necessary?

April 2, 2024/8 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Is Causation Necessary? I don’t mean to be asking Hume’s question about the need for necessary connection in the causal relation; I mean to be asking whether causation (causal power) is a necessary feature of things. Granted that something has a causal power, does it necessarily have that power? Are its causal powers part of […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-04-02 13:37:112024-04-02 13:37:11Is Causation Necessary?

Is Speaking Acting?

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

Is Speaking Acting? We have grown accustomed to the phrase “speech act”, so much so that we regard it as a truism: of coursespeech is a type of action! It is an action we perform with our mouth and larynx as opposed to our hands or feet. Assertion is something we do—it is an intentional […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-03-30 12:35:492024-03-30 12:35:49Is Speaking Acting?

Attitudes to Memory

March 28, 2024/2 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Attitudes to Memory Let me distinguish memories from our attitudes towards them. Memories, though changeable, are relatively static compared to our emotional response to them. The memory may fade or disappear with time (or it may not) but our feelings about it are quite plastic and can even reverse valence. A painful memory can become […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-03-28 14:19:032024-03-28 14:19:03Attitudes to Memory

Foundations of Psychotherapy

March 26, 2024/12 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Foundations of Psychotherapy Say what you like about Freud but at least he had a general theory of the nature, origins, and development of human personality. It centered on psychosexual dynamics, and repression figured prominently. It covered the emotions, neurosis, unhappiness, the family, dreams, jokes, art, morality, and other things. But we need not follow […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-03-26 14:50:122024-03-26 14:50:12Foundations of Psychotherapy

Philosophy of Skill

March 23, 2024/6 Comments/in Uncategorized/by Colin McGinn

Philosophy of Skill There is no such thing as what the above title describes. We have philosophy of knowledge, perception, thought, emotions, imagination, and action—but not philosophy of skill (except for some scattered remarks). You can’t take a course in philosophy of skill in a typical philosophy department. So, let’s create the subject—let’s put it […]

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0 0 Colin McGinn Colin McGinn2024-03-23 13:45:402024-03-23 13:45:40Philosophy of Skill
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