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All the ideas for 'The Material Mind', 'Truth and Power (interview)' and 'Tarski's Theory of Truth'

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18 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism
15038 Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
15044 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault]
10825 The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
15042 Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault]
10820 In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
13499 Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD]
10818 Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
10817 Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H]
5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 2. Formal Truth
10819 Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H]
5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 1. Logical Models
10827 Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
15037 Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
10826 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 1. Psychology
6386 In no important way can psychology be reduced to the physical sciences [Davidson]
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
7615 Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
15043 Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power
15040 Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault]
15041 Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
15039 History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault]