15 ideas
| 12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
| 12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
| 7508 | Good reductionism connects fields of knowledge, but doesn't replace one with another [Pinker] |
| 7510 | Connectionists say the mind is a general purpose learning device [Pinker] |
| 7513 | Is memory stored in protein sequences, neurons, synapses, or synapse-strengths? [Pinker] |
| 7509 | Roundworms live successfully with 302 neurons, so human freedom comes from our trillions [Pinker] |
| 7511 | Neural networks can generalise their training, e.g. truths about tigers apply mostly to lions [Pinker] |
| 7512 | There are five types of reasoning that seem beyond connectionist systems [Pinker, by PG] |
| 12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
| 7505 | Many think that accepting human nature is to accept innumerable evils [Pinker] |
| 12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
| 7825 | The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M] |
| 7516 | In 1828, the stuff of life was shown to be ordinary chemistry, not a magic gel [Pinker] |
| 7515 | All the evidence says evolution is cruel and wasteful, not intelligent [Pinker] |
| 7514 | Intelligent Design says that every unexplained phenomenon must be design, by default [Pinker] |