Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Habermas' and 'Identity over Time'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

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One can universalise good advice, but that doesn't make it an obligation [Finlayson]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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The 'culture industry' is an advertisement for the way things are [Finlayson]