Ideas from 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' by Frank Jackson [1998], by Theme Structure
[found in 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' by Jackson,Frank [OUP 2000,0-19-825061-4]].
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Serious metaphysics cares about entailment between sentences
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
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Intuitions about possibilities are basic to conceptual analysis
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Conceptual analysis studies whether one story is made true by another story
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Conceptual analysis is needed to establish that metaphysical reductions respect original meanings [Schroeter]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism
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Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths
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Truth supervenes on being
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Smooth reductions preserve high-level laws in the lower level
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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Baldness is just hair distribution, but the former is indeterminate, unlike the latter
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Redness is a property, but only as a presentation to normal humans
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
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We should not multiply senses of necessity beyond necessity
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
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Mathematical sentences are a problem in a possible-worlds framework
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
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Possible worlds could be concrete, abstract, universals, sentences, or properties
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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Long arithmetic calculations show the a priori can be fallible
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / a. Qualities in perception
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We examine objects to determine colour; we do not introspect
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
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In physicalism, the psychological depends on the physical, not the other way around
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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Is the dependence of the psychological on the physical a priori or a posteriori?
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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If different states can fulfil the same role, the converse must also be possible
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Folk psychology covers input, internal role, and output
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18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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Egocentric or de se content seems to be irreducibly so
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18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
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Keep distinct the essential properties of water, and application conditions for the word 'water'
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / c. Classical concepts
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Analysis is finding necessary and sufficient conditions by studying possible cases
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Successful predication supervenes on nature
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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I can understand "He has a beard", without identifying 'he', and hence the truth conditions
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions
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Folk morality does not clearly distinguish between doing and allowing
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Moral functionalism says moral terms get their meaning from their role in folk morality
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Which are prior - thin concepts like right, good, ought; or thick concepts like kindness, equity etc.?
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
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It is hard to justify the huge difference in our judgements of abortion and infanticide
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