Concepts of Mind We have concepts of mind, but where do they come from? According to a hallowed tradition, they come from the mind itself, or rather our perception of it. Just as we get our concepts of external objects from external objects (in both senses of “object”), so we get our concepts of internal […]
Dear professor Colin McGinn, First of all I want to say ‘Thank You‘ for having written such insightfull and brain-teasing (pun intended;-) books and articles on mind, soul, body & their possible interactions! I’ve tried to contradict TN, most recently during a holiday in France this summer, but alas, my arguments thus far didn’t hold […]
Colin: I love the piece. I took the liberty of appending a healthy portion of it to your Landscape entry, lengthening what was already the longest entry. I think it is important to stress your position, particularly your current way of thinking, because your “mysterianism” is a core contribution to the M-B Problem, and it […]
Problems of Consciousness Think back to the time when we had very little knowledge of the brain, but substantial knowledge of consciousness and the mind generally. We didn’t even know that the brain is the organ of the body responsible for the mind, or that any bodily organ is (it might emanate from an astral […]
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Fetal Philosophy What kind of philosophy would an intelligent fetus develop? We ourselves don’t have much active intelligence in the womb, but what if we did? What if instead of nine months we had nine years? What if the brain was fully formed by the second year of life, but we were still unborn? Surely […]
Argentina and Me I decided to buy an Argentina football jersey. Is it because I support the Argentinian team? No, I support no particular team and don’t even watch football regularly. I bought it because I like the design—those light blue vertical stripes. I bought it for aesthetic reasons. It is true that I bought […]
Moral Knowledge and Moral Language Moral knowledge is one thing; moral language is quite another. The two topics need to be treated separately. I am mainly concerned here with the language question, but I will make some prefatory remarks about moral knowledge. Moral knowledge comprises knowledge-that, knowledge-how, and knowledge-what: we know (say) that genocide is […]
Hi Colin It was great having you on the show. Here is a link to your episode. Feel free to share it. https://youtu.be/4pQMOiomZ-k?si=Sir4BtdV29_z2T_P Kind Regards Mark Oppenheimer Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar President of the South African Institute of Race Relations https://markoppenheimer.co.za/ 083 983 5848
Art for Art’s Sake I am fed up to the back teeth with this slogan. It may have once seemed brave and insightful, but now it reveals a complete failure of moral judgment (and intelligence). It is the opposite of the truth. First, let’s parse it, because it conceals a slyly tendentious ambiguity. It clearly […]