Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics', 'Virtue Theory and Abortion' and 'Power/Knowledge'

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6 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

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Eudaimonia first; virtue is a trait which promotes it; right acts are what virtues produce [Hursthouse, by Zagzebski]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power

8991	Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton]