26 ideas
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
5331 | You can't infer that because you have a hidden birth-mark, everybody else does [Ayer] |
2611 | It is currently held that quantifying over something implies belief in its existence [Ayer] |
16520 | We see properties necessary for a kind (in the definition), but not for an individual [Ayer] |
2613 | The theory of other minds has no rival [Ayer] |
5328 | Originally I combined a mentalistic view of introspection with a behaviouristic view of other minds [Ayer] |
5330 | Physicalism undercuts the other mind problem, by equating experience with 'public' brain events [Ayer] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
5326 | Qualia must be united by a subject, because they lead to concepts and judgements [Ayer] |
5325 | Is something an 'experience' because it relates to other experiences, or because it relates to a subject? [Ayer] |
5324 | Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity [Ayer] |
5322 | Self-consciousness is not basic, because experiences are not instrinsically marked with ownership [Ayer] |
5327 | Temporal gaps in the consciousness of a spirit could not be bridged by memories [Ayer] |
5329 | Why shouldn't we say brain depends on mind? Better explanation! [Ayer] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
2610 | Talk of propositions is just shorthand for talking about equivalent sentences [Ayer] |
6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |