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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Examination of Sir Wm Hamilton's Philosophy' and 'Mind and World'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason

8251	The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom [McDowell]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

3583	External objects are permanent possibilities of sensation [Mill]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22049

Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

22055

The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

22054

German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

22056

Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

8128	Representation must be propositional if it can give reasons and be epistemological [McDowell, by Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

19092

There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

8253	Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

3537	I judge others' feeling by analogy with my body and behaviour [Mill]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8254	Forming concepts by abstraction from the Given is private definition, which the Private Lang. Arg. attacks [McDowell]