Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Phil Dowe, C.S. Lewis and Juan Comesaa

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7 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
19727 Reliabilist knowledge is evidence based belief, with high conditional probability [Comesaņa]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism
19725 In a sceptical scenario belief formation is unreliable, so no beliefs at all are justified? [Comesaņa]
19726 How do we decide which exact process is the one that needs to be reliable? [Comesaņa]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
15640 Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at its testing point [Lewis,CS]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
4787 Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos]
14586 Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
4788 Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos]