15 ideas
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |