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All the ideas for 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se', 'Modern Moral Philosophy' and 'On the Reduction of Necessity to Essence'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
16974 The nature of each logical concept is given by a collection of inference rules [Correia]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
16973 Explain logical necessity by logical consequence, or the other way around? [Correia]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism
18415 The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
16392 A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes
18416 Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
16390 Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
18418 A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
8070 It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
8065 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]
8069 Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]