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All the ideas for 'Reference and Reflexivity', 'Morality and the emotions' and 'Letters to Varignon'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions
24008 Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions
24009 Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
16391 Indexical thoughts are about themselves, and ascribe properties to themselves [Perry, by Recanati]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
24007 Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
24010 An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty
24012 Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
19414 Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]