16 ideas
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
2181 | It is an absurd Kantian idea that at the limit rationality and freedom coincide [Williams,B] |
2176 | There is only a problem of free will if you think the notion of 'voluntary' can be metaphysically deepened [Williams,B] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
4317 | We judge weakness of will by an assessment after the event is concluded [Williams,B, by Cottingham] |
2174 | Responsibility involves cause, intention, state of mind, and response after the event [Williams,B] |
2178 | In bad actions, guilt points towards victims, and shame to the agent [Williams,B] |
2169 | Greek moral progress came when 'virtue' was freed from social status [Williams,B] |
2172 | The modern idea of duty is unknown in archaic Greece [Williams,B] |
2179 | If the moral self is seen as characterless, then other people have a very limited role in our moral lives [Williams,B] |
2180 | If reason cannot lead people to good, we must hope they have an internal voice [Williams,B] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |
2175 | There is a problem of evil only if you expect the world to be good [Williams,B] |