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All the ideas for 'Frege's Theory of Numbers', 'The Structure of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Impossible Objects: interviews'

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19 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
20455 Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
20446 Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
20449 Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
20448 Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure
17447 Parsons says counting is tagging as first, second, third..., and converting the last to a cardinal [Parsons,C, by Heck]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification
21506 A coherence theory of justification can combine with a correspondence theory of truth [Bonjour]
21509 There will always be a vast number of equally coherent but rival systems [Bonjour]
21503 Empirical coherence must attribute reliability to spontaneous experience [Bonjour]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism
21510 The objection that a negated system is equally coherent assume that coherence is consistency [Bonjour]
21511 A well written novel cannot possibly match a real belief system for coherence [Bonjour]
21505 A coherent system can be justified with initial beliefs lacking all credibility [Bonjour]
21504 The best explanation of coherent observations is they are caused by and correspond to reality [Bonjour]
14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 5. Anomalies
21508 Anomalies challenge the claim that the basic explanations are actually basic [Bonjour]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
20454 Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
20456 Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
20447 The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
20450 The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley]
20452 Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 3. Conservatism
20451 Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley]