Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Samuel Alexander, Frances A. Yates and James Woodward

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

3534	To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

14367

An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

3398	Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S]

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Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S]