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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Mind in a Physical World' and 'talk'

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43 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
2319 Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 5. Functions in Logic
15105 F(x) walked into a bar. The barman said.. [Sommers,W]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being
12408 Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
2317 Reductionism is good on light, genes, temperature and transparency [Kim, by PG]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
2310 Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
2315 Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
2329 Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal [Kim]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
12397 Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 7. Emergent Properties
2320 Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents [Kim]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
12407 Barman to Descartes: Would you like another drink?... [Sommers,W]
12399 There was a young student called Fred... [Sommers,W]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
20963 A philosopher and his wife are out for a drive... [Sommers,W]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / c. Empirical idealism
12404 Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd.... [Sommers,W]
12403 There once was a man who said: 'God... [Sommers,W]
12402 ..But if he's a student of Berkeley... [Sommers,W]
12409 The philosopher Berkeley once said.. [Sommers,W]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
14694 "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
530 There are two contradictory arguments about everything [Kim]
13314 Protagoras says arguments on both sides are always equal [Kim, by Seneca]
12401 A toper who spies in the distance... [Sommers,W]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
1550 Why didn't Protagoras begin by saying "a tadpole is the measure of all things"? [Plato on Kim]
2065 Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people [Plato on Kim]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 3. Mental Causation
2318 Agency, knowledge, reason, memory, psychology all need mental causes [Kim, by PG]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
2325 It seems impossible that an exact physical copy of this world could lack intentionality [Kim]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
3102 Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
12410 There once was a man who said 'Damn!... [Sommers,W]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
9392 How do behaviourists greet each other? [Sommers,W]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
2324 Intentionality as function seems possible [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique
2314 Maybe intentionality is reducible, but qualia aren't [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism
2313 Emergentism says there is no explanation for a supervenient property [Kim]
2328 The only mental property that might be emergent is that of qualia [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
2309 Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience [Kim]
2311 Maybe strong supervenience implies reduction [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique
2308 Identity theory was overthrown by multiple realisations and causal anomalies [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
2322 Multiple realisation applies to other species, and even one individual over time [Kim]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / c. Knowledge argument
2327 Knowledge and inversion make functionalism about qualia doubtful [Kim]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
2323 Emotions have both intentionality and qualia [Kim]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites
12405 'If you're aristocratic,' said Nietzsche... [Sommers,W]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
9391 Why do anarchists drink herbal tea? [Sommers,W]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
12400 Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W]
16527 Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time
17592 The barman called 'Time!', and Augustine said..... [Sommers,W]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
15208 The past, present and future walked into a bar.... [Sommers,W]