11 ideas
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] |
24008 | Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B] |
24009 | Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
24007 | Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
24010 | An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
24012 | Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B] |