5 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
7091 | The argument from analogy is not a strong inference, since the other being might be an actor or a robot [Grayling] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |