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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Reasons and Persons' and 'The Empirical Stance'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

12771

Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

12773

Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

12770

We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen]

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

12768

We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

9762	We should focus less on subjects of experience, and more on the experiences themselves [Parfit]