Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Ren Descartes and Andreas Osiander
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
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Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
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The secret of the method is to recognise which thing in a series is the simplest [Descartes]
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Methodical thinking is cautious, analytical, systematic, and panoramic [Descartes, by PG]
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Reason says don't assent to uncertain principles, just as much as totally false ones [Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
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One truth leads us to another [Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason
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A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor]
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Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor]
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