Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism' and 'Introducing Persons'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

7 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
6019 If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations
1394 Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers]
1395 Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity
1396 We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers]
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
17371 Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
17372 The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]
17373 Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]