Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'Moral Luck'

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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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 5. Controlling Beliefs

3271	We can't control our own beliefs [Nagel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

17093

Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

17492

Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck

3272	Moral luck can arise in character, preconditions, actual circumstances, and outcome [Nagel]