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All the ideas for 'Brainstorms:Essays on Mind and Psychology', 'Kant's Analytic' and 'Causality: Reductionism versus Realism'

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5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
3158 Theories of intentionality presuppose rationality, so can't explain it [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance
3159 Beliefs and desires aren't real; they are prediction techniques [Dennett]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8416 Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation
8418 Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
8592 Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker]