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All the ideas for 'The Really Hard Problem', 'General Draft' and 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays''

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

22026

Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

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

21833

Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

19591

Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]

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]

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

21835

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

21832

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