21 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |