15 ideas
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |