18 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21991 | The middle class gain freedom through property, but workers can only free all of humanity [Marx, by Singer] |
21990 | Theory is as much a part of a revolution as material force is [Marx] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
7128 | Religion is the opium of the people, and real happiness requires its abolition [Marx] |