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All the ideas for 'Lewis's Programme', 'Letters to Mersenne' and 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
3653 My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics [Descartes]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
4736 Truth is such a transcendentally clear notion that it cannot be further defined [Descartes]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
16052 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]
16053 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16056 Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16054 Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]
16055 Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals
8431 Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism
16057 Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
8432 Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
3652 I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body [Descartes]