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All the ideas for 'The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800', 'The Really Hard Problem' and 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action'

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10 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

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Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind

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Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

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For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

5470	The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

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Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan]