18 ideas
23664 | Powers are quite distinct and simple, and so cannot be defined [Reid] |
23669 | Thinkers say that matter has intrinsic powers, but is also passive and acted upon [Reid] |
23666 | It is obvious that there could not be a power without a subject which possesses it [Reid] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
23665 | Consciousness is the power of mind to know itself, and minds are grounded in powers [Reid] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
23668 | Our own nature attributes free determinations to our own will [Reid] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
20051 | Reid said that agent causation is a unique type of causation [Reid, by Stout,R] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
8383 | Day and night are constantly conjoined, but they don't cause one another [Reid, by Crane] |
23667 | Regular events don't imply a cause, without an innate conviction of universal causation [Reid] |
23670 | Scientists don't know the cause of magnetism, and only discover its regulations [Reid] |
23671 | Laws are rules for effects, but these need a cause; rules of navigation don't navigate [Reid] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |