8 ideas
5500 | Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
5494 | 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
5496 | Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan] |
5499 | A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan] |
21137 | Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples' [Rawls, by Shorten] |
5501 | People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan] |