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4 unusual facts about Colin McGinn


Colin McGinn

He has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami.

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Owen Flanagan introduced the term "new mysterians" in 1991 (named after Question Mark & the Mysterians, a 1960s band) to describe McGinn's position and that of Thomas Nagel, first described in Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" (1974).

Cortège for Rosenbloom

The transcendental naturalism of some of Colin McGinn's work, which construes the mind-body connection (the `world knot') as a natural feature of homo sapiens but `cognitively closed' to our epistemic horizons, is a philosophical analog of this outlook.

Stealing Orchestra

- The album Deliverance includes excerpts of an interview with Colin McGinn from the BBC series The Atheism Tapes



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