Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Peter Unger and Ruth Garrett Millikan

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

19695

The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled [Whitcomb]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9052	Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

16070

There are no objects with proper parts; there are only mereological simples [Unger, by Wasserman]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12582

The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

8724	The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

8722	No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 4. Demon Scepticism

8723	An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]