27 ideas
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
18739 | Three stages of philosophical logic: syntactic (1905-55), possible worlds (1963-85), widening (1990-) [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18741 | Logical formalization makes concepts precise, and also shows their interrelation [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18744 | Models are sets with functions and relations, and truth built up from the components [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18740 | If 'exist' doesn't express a property, we can hardly ask for its essence [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18745 | A Tarskian model can be seen as a possible state of affairs [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18747 | The 'spheres model' was added to possible worlds, to cope with counterfactuals [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18748 | Epistemic logic introduced impossible worlds [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18746 | Possible worlds models contain sets of possible worlds; this is a large metaphysical commitment [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18750 | Using possible worlds for knowledge and morality may be a step too far [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
6446 | In ethics we abstract from our identity, but not from our humanity [Nagel] |
6477 | I can only universalise a maxim if everyone else could also universalise it [Nagel] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |