Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Archimedes, Michael Burke and Slavoj Zizek

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

9777	Kant was the first philosopher [Zizek]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

9778	There is no dialogue in philosophy [Zizek]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

9779	Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology) [Zizek]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

13007

Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

16235

Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]

14753

The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

16072

'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

14751

Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

16071

Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

16234

Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]

13278

Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

14750

Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

9780	Consciousness is a malfunction of evolution [Zizek]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

9781	Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek]