Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, James Gordon Finlayson and C.D. Broad

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11 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

14759

A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

14963

Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad]

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

20653

Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

15675

We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

15674

One can universalise good advice, but that doesn't make it an obligation [Finlayson]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

15662

The 'culture industry' is an advertisement for the way things are [Finlayson]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

14609

We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

22933

We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]