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All the ideas for 'Basic Problems of Phenomenology', 'What is it like to be a bat?' and 'On the spiritual perfection of life'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
22102 Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 2. Platonism in Logic
15571 The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology [Heidegger]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness
3286 An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies
3288 Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel]
17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
4883 Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel]
3287 We can't be objective about experience [Nagel]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
4989 Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
15581 Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be [Heidegger]