Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain', 'Modes of Extension: comment on Fine' and 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, History'

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6 ideas

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism
7444 Type-type psychophysical identity is combined with a functional characterisation of pain [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
7445 The application of 'pain' to physical states is non-rigid and contingent [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
7443 A theory must be mixed, to cover qualia without behaviour, and behaviour without qualia [Lewis, by PG]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
22235 Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble) [Foucault]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
18883 Any equivalence relation among similar things allows the creation of an abstractum [Simons]
18884 Abstraction is usually seen as producing universals and numbers, but it can do more [Simons]