Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Iris Marion Young, Diogenes (Apoll) and Tim Maudlin

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
5995 Diogenes of Apollonia offered the first teleological account of cosmology [Diogenes of Apollonia, by Robinson,TM]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
488 Air is divine, because it is in and around everything, and arranges everything [Diogenes of Apollonia]
484 Everything is ultimately a variation of one underlying thing [Diogenes of Apollonia]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
486 Plants and animals can only come into existence if something fixes their species [Diogenes of Apollonia]
485 Things must retain their essential nature during change, or mixing would be impossible [Diogenes of Apollonia]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
16248 Evaluating counterfactuals involves context and interests [Maudlin]
16250 We don't pick a similar world from many - we construct one possibility from the description [Maudlin]
16268 The counterfactual is ruined if some other cause steps in when the antecedent fails [Maudlin]
16267 If we know the cause of an event, we seem to assent to the counterfactual [Maudlin]
16269 If the effect hadn't occurred the cause wouldn't have happened, so counterfactuals are two-way [Maudlin]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
16247 Laws are primitive, so two indiscernible worlds could have the same laws [Maudlin]
16272 Fundamental laws say how nature will, or might, evolve from some initial state [Maudlin]
16242 Laws of nature are ontological bedrock, and beyond analysis [Maudlin]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
16251 'Humans with prime house numbers are mortal' is not a law, because not a natural kind [Maudlin]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
16270 If laws are just regularities, then there have to be laws [Maudlin]