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All the ideas for 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge', 'Causation and the Flow of Energy' and 'The Problem of Consciousness'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
8824 No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
7388 McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
3185 Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8326 Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]
10379 Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
15251 The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]