Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Language of Thought' and 'Aristotle on Learning to be Good'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

11143

If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

4377	Intellectualism is an excessive emphasis on reasoning in moral philosophy [Burnyeat]