Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Really Hard Problem', 'Sociobiology' and 'Intending'

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10 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

21833

Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind

21834

Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

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Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

21837

Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

21830

For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

21831

Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

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Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan]