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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow' and 'Les quaestiones de anima (lectures on the soul)'

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5 ideas

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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Intellectual and moral states, and even the soul itself, depend on prime matter for their existence [Blasius, by Pasnau]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

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Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]

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Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]