Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Stephen Schiffer and William Lyons

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9 ideas

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

2986	Belief is the most important propositional attitude [Lyons]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

19508

Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

19509

The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

2978	Consciousness no longer seems essential to intentionality [Lyons]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism

2984	Perceptions could give us information without symbolic representation [Lyons]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

2979	Propositional attitudes require representation [Lyons]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

2987	Folk psychology works badly for alien cultures [Lyons]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

2977	All thinking has content [Lyons]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]