Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Persons, Character and Morality' and 'Three theses about dispositions'

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5 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

7435	Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

23279

It is important that a person can change their character, and not just be successive 'selves' [Williams,B]

23280

Kantians have an poor account of individuals, and insist on impartiality, because they ignore character [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

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For utilitarians states of affairs are what have value, not matter who produced them [Williams,B]