13 ideas
15282 | Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Osiander, by Harré/Madden] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
9757 | A person viewed as an agent makes no sense without its own future [Korsgaard] |
9758 | To make sense of personal identity, focus on agency rather than experience [Korsgaard] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
9759 | Theory of action focuses on explanation and prediction; practical action on justification and choice [Korsgaard] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
9760 | Self-concern may be a source of pain, or a lack of self-respect, or a failure of responsibility [Korsgaard] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
9761 | Personal concern for one's own self widens out into concern for the impersonal [Korsgaard] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |