21 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
18890 | Putnam smuggles essentialism about liquids into his proof that water must be H2O [Salmon,N on Putnam] |
2526 | Philosophers regularly confuse failures of imagination with insights into necessity [Dennett] |
2523 | That every mammal has a mother is a secure reality, but without foundations [Dennett] |
2528 | Does consciousness need the concept of consciousness? [Dennett] |
2525 | Maybe language is crucial to consciousness [Dennett] |
2527 | Unconscious intentionality is the foundation of the mind [Dennett] |
7705 | The Twin Earth theory suggests that intentionality is independent of qualia [Jacquette on Putnam] |
2530 | Could a robot be made conscious just by software? [Dennett] |
2524 | A language of thought doesn't explain content [Dennett] |
4099 | If Twins talking about 'water' and 'XYZ' have different thoughts but identical heads, then thoughts aren't in the head [Putnam, by Crane] |
12026 | We say ice and steam are different forms of water, but not that they are different forms of H2O [Forbes,G on Putnam] |
3208 | Does 'water' mean a particular substance that was 'dubbed'? [Putnam, by Rey] |
2529 | Maybe there can be non-conscious concepts (e.g. in bees) [Dennett] |
3893 | Often reference determines sense, and not (as Frege thought) vice versa [Putnam, by Scruton] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |
11191 | The hidden structure of a natural kind determines membership in all possible worlds [Putnam] |
11192 | If causes are the essence of diseases, then disease is an example of a relational essence [Putnam, by Williams,NE] |
11190 | Archimedes meant by 'gold' the hidden structure or essence of the stuff [Putnam] |