Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Plato and Michael della Rocca

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind
2508 The function of a mind is obvious [Fodor]
2503 Empirical approaches see mind connections as mirrors/maps of reality [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / c. Features of mind
12636 Mental states have causal powers [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / e. Questions about mind
2096 Is the function of the mind management, authority and planning - or is it one's whole way of life? [Plato]
2994 In CRTT thought may be represented, content must be [Fodor]
2443 I say psychology is intentional, semantics is informational, and thinking is computation [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche
13781 Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato]
6009 Psychic conflict is clear if appetite is close to the body and reason fairly separate [Plato, by Modrak]
6041 There is a third element to the mind - spirit - lying between reason and appetite [Plato]
9296 The soul is self-motion [Plato]
5962 Plato says the soul is ordered by number [Plato, by Plutarch]
21260 Soul is what is defined by 'self-generating motion' [Plato]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
2127 The mind has parts, because we have inner conflicts [Plato]
1737 The soul seems to have an infinity of parts [Aristotle on Plato]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain
13154 Do we think and experience with blood, air or fire, or could it be our brain? [Plato]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
2453 We are probably the only creatures that can think about our own thoughts [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
15473 How does anything get outside itself? [Fodor, by Martin,CB]
2485 Do intentional states explain our behaviour? [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
2981 Is intentionality outwardly folk psychology, inwardly mentalese? [Lyons on Fodor]
15494 We can't use propositions to explain intentional attitudes, because they would need explaining [Fodor]
7326 Intentionality doesn't go deep enough to appear on the physicists' ultimate list of things [Fodor]
3976 Intentional science needs objects with semantic and causal properties, and which obey laws [Fodor]
3980 Intentional states and processes may be causal relations among mental symbols [Fodor]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance
12661 The different types of resemblance don't resemble one another [Fodor]
191 Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato]