11 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
6120 | Causation depends on intrinsic properties [Mellor/Crane] |
1394 | Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers] |
1395 | Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers] |
1396 | We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers] |
6121 | There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions [Mellor/Crane] |
6122 | No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences [Mellor/Crane] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |