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All the ideas for 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain' and '26: Oracles in Decline'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

5958	The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch]

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]