Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Introduction to 'Evidentialism'' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

7 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

14633

How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

14635

An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

14632

Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

14631

How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

19518

Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

19519

Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

15877

The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]