12 ideas
| 6408 | Russell needed three extra axioms to reduce maths to logic: infinity, choice and reducibility [Grayling] |
| 6414 | Two propositions might seem self-evident, but contradict one another [Grayling] |
| 21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
| 21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
| 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] |
| 23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
| 23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |