Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Peter Carruthers, E.J. Lowe and Beth Lord
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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Some behaviourists believe thought is just suppressed speech [Lowe]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality
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People are wildly inaccurate in estimating probabilities about an observed event [Lowe]
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'Base rate neglect' makes people favour the evidence over its background [Lowe]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
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Mentalese isn't a language, because it isn't conventional, or a means of public communication [Lowe]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
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The 'Frame Problem' is how to program the appropriate application of general knowledge [Lowe]
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Computers can't be rational, because they lack motivation and curiosity [Lowe]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / c. Turing Test
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The Turing test is too behaviourist, and too verbal in its methods [Lowe]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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The naturalistic views of how content is created are the causal theory and the teleological theory [Lowe]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
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Twin Earth cases imply that even beliefs about kinds of stuff are indexical [Lowe]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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A concept is a way of thinking of things or kinds, whether or not they exist [Lowe]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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Abstractions are non-spatial, or dependent, or derived from concepts [Lowe]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
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Concrete and abstract objects are distinct because the former have causal powers and relations [Lowe]
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The centre of mass of the solar system is a non-causal abstract object, despite having a location [Lowe]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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You can think of a direction without a line, but a direction existing with no lines is inconceivable [Lowe]
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