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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Freedom of the Will and concept of a person' and 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

16415

Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16413

Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

16416

The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness

9264	Persons are distinguished by a capacity for second-order desires [Frankfurt]

9266	A person essentially has second-order volitions, and not just second-order desires [Frankfurt]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

9267	Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

9265	The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

20015

Freedom of action needs the agent to identify with their reason for acting [Frankfurt, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

9270	A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions [Frankfurt]

9269	A person may be morally responsible without free will [Frankfurt]