Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Steven Pinker, Barry Maund and Pierre Gassendi
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
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Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation) [Maund]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
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One thesis says we are not aware of qualia, but only of objects and their qualities [Maund]
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The Myth of the Given claims that thought is rationally supported by non-conceptual experiences [Maund]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 8. Adverbial Theory
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Mountains are adverbial modifications of the earth, but still have object-characteristics [Maund]
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Adverbialism tries to avoid sense-data and preserve direct realism [Maund]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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Connectionists say the mind is a general purpose learning device [Pinker]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory
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Is memory stored in protein sequences, neurons, synapses, or synapse-strengths? [Pinker]
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