Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stephen P. Stich, Einstein,A/Infeld,L and Andrew Bowie

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

20955

Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

6627	Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22049

Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

20950

German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie]

22055

The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

22054

German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

22056

Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct

20942

Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

4765	Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

20946

Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

18202

The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]