Combining Texts

All the ideas for '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?', 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain' and 'Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes'

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5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche
Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism
Type-type psychophysical identity is combined with a functional characterisation of pain [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
The application of 'pain' to physical states is non-rigid and contingent [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
A theory must be mixed, to cover qualia without behaviour, and behaviour without qualia [Lewis, by PG]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised [Quine]