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Ideas for 'talk', 'Causal Powers' and 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
13773 For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course [Socrates]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
7421 A philosopher is one who cares about what other people care about [Socrates, by Foucault]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
15209 Like disastrous small errors in navigation, small misunderstandings can wreck intellectual life [Harré/Madden]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
1649 Socrates opened philosophy to all, but Plato confined moral enquiry to a tiny elite [Vlastos on Socrates]
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
15215 Philosophy devises and assesses conceptual schemes in the service of worldviews [Harré/Madden]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
5842 Philosophical discussion involves dividing subject-matter into categories [Socrates, by Xenophon]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
648 Socrates began the quest for something universal with his definitions, but he didn't make them separate [Socrates, by Aristotle]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
15212 Analysis of concepts based neither on formalism nor psychology can arise from examining what we know [Harré/Madden]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
14456 'Socrates is human' expresses predication, and 'Socrates is a man' expresses identity [Russell]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis
15210 Humeans see analysis in terms of formal logic, because necessities are fundamentally logical relations [Harré/Madden]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism
15236 Positivism says science only refers to immediate experiences [Harré/Madden]