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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Phil Applications of Cognitive Science' and 'Killing and Letting Die'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

4045	Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count [Goldman]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

4044	Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count [Goldman]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

4048	Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories [Goldman]

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

4043	Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes [Goldman]

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

4049	The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

4047	Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles [Goldman]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]