Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'The Psychophysical Nexus' and 'Problems in the Explanation of Action'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

4242	Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

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

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

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

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

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

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We can keep Davidson's account of intentions in action, by further explaining prior intentions [Davidson, by Stout,R]