12 ideas
9777 | Kant was the first philosopher [Zizek] |
9778 | There is no dialogue in philosophy [Zizek] |
9779 | Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology) [Zizek] |
19440 | How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya] |
9780 | Consciousness is a malfunction of evolution [Zizek] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
9781 | Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek] |
8324 | The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley] |
8328 | Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley] |
8327 | If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley] |
8330 | Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |