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Wife files for divorce from former UM prof facing harassment suit
Edit The Miami Herald 11 Dec 2015
Here’s a philosophical note for former University of Miami philosophy superstar Colin McGinn ... McGinn, who resigned from the school two years ago, has been facing a lawsuit from a graduate student who accused him of sexually harassing her ... Citing irreconciliable differences, Catherine Mortenson threw in the towel as McGinn and UM fight a nasty lawsuit brought by ex-student Monica Morrison....
Professor Accused Of Harassment Is Gone, But Debate Isn't Over
Edit Huffington Post 21 Oct 2015
When Monica Morrison gave the University of Miami copies of explicit emails and text messages she'd received from star philosophy professor Colin McGinn, the school got him off campus, but didn't charge him with sexual harassment ... Last week, Morrison filed a federal lawsuit against the university over its handling of the case, partly because it failed to charge McGinn with sexual harassment....
Miami University student Monica Ainhorn Morrison sues Colin McGinn who urged her to sleep with him
Edit Indonesia News 18 Oct 2015British philosopher with alleged 'foot fetish' is accused of harassing student
Edit The Daily Telegraph 18 Oct 2015
Colin McGinn has been accused in legal documents of pressurising a student at Miami University. ....
University Of Miami Sued Over Handling Of Colin McGinn Harassment Claims
Edit Huffington Post 17 Oct 2015
A former University of Miami graduate student filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that Colin McGinn, a philosophy professor, sexually harassed her over several months in 2011 and 2o12 ... She wrote back that she had been feeling sick and dealing with stress at home, but reassured him "I am so excited to be [in] the Colin McGinn intellectual lineage." ... 24, email, McGinn wrote. ... McGinn ... McGinn ... McGinn ... McGinn....
Leading the way in supporting young people who have experienced loss and trauma (University of ...
Edit Public Technologies 01 Oct 2015
Colin Maginn, director of Pillars of Parenting, has done a lot of work with psychologists, while Dr Bruce Perry from the Child Trauma Institute has found that there is a significant impact on brain development in young ... Sally has provided three units relating to therapeutic parenting and further units are being developed by Colin Mcginn among others....
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?
Edit The Guardian 21 Jan 2015
An admittedly extreme example concerns the Canadian-born philosopher Ted Honderich, whose book On Consciousness was described, in an article by his fellow philosopher Colin McGinn in 2007, as “banal and pointless”, “excruciating”, “absurd”, running “the full gamut from the mediocre to the ludicrous to the merely bad”....
A Quest For The Unattainable Unification Of Knowledge
Edit National Public Radio 03 Dec 2014
7.53 AM ET. Marcelo Gleiser. i i. iStockphoto. iStockphoto ... The Unity of Knowledge ... (And that Wilson's prose is truly inspired and engaging, which is definitely the case.) ... (See Alva's essay here last Friday, or essays by some of the so-called New Mysterians, including Colin McGinn, David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel, and Steve Pinker.) We don't even know if it's possible for a machine to emulate the human mind without a sense of the human body ... ....
The Truth Is, Philosophy Rules Your World
Edit National Public Radio 12 Mar 2014
If philosophy's main goal is to figure out what makes life worth living, it is also, by extension, a preparation for dying. Plato knew this and took it to heart. And now we can listen to him again, and learn something useful ... For this we must thank Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's inventiveness and intellectual courage ... Why Philosophy Won't Go Away has just been published to rave reviews by people such as philosopher Colin McGinn. Ms ... How? ... ....
Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain
Edit National Public Radio 04 Dec 2013
The philosophers Thomas Nagel, Colin McGinn and David Chalmers, sometimes known as the "mysterians," defend that we are cognitively incapable (or, as McGinn puts it, "cognitively closed") to understanding consciousness — the subjective experience we have when feeling something, be it the tone of a color or the emotion of love....
More from Scientific American
Edit Scientific American 02 Nov 2013
(With a little help from the Internet.); Zombie Fever. A Mathematician Studies a Pop Culture Epidemic; and Why is American Folklore Overrun with Phantom Hitchhikers? ... Halloween witch ... What happened when philosopher Colin McGinn — disgraced by sexual harassment charges — turned his attention to the philosophy of physics? Nothing good, according to this review in MIND of McGinn’s 2011 book from Oxford University Press ... …....
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