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Single Idea 6178
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology
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Full Idea
In recent environmental philosophy it is common to see the value of nature identified with one or another natural feature of the environment: life, diversity, ecosystemic integrity and so on.
Gist of Idea
It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity
Source
Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.11)
Book Ref
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.206
A Reaction
This thought seems to be asking for the Open Question argument. What is so good about life, or diversity? Our strongest intuition must be that the survival of the ecosystem, and whatever makes that possible, is the highest value.
The
16 ideas
from 'Externalism'
6177
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Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people
[Rowlands]
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6178
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It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity
[Rowlands]
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6156
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The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space
[Rowlands]
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6158
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Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars
[Rowlands]
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6157
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Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds
[Rowlands]
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
[Rowlands]
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6154
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It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack
[Rowlands]
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6152
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Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware
[Rowlands]
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6159
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Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world
[Rowlands]
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6161
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Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding
[Rowlands]
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6163
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If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected
[Rowlands]
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6168
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The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence
[Rowlands]
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6167
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Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states
[Rowlands]
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6170
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Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79
[Rowlands]
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6173
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Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds
[Rowlands]
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6174
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If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do
[Rowlands]
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