12 ideas
9786 | Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R] |
2546 | Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge [McGinn] |
9784 | A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
6409 | The 'simple theory of types' distinguishes levels among properties [Ramsey, by Grayling] |
3212 | Beliefs are maps by which we steer [Ramsey] |
2539 | Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn] |
2545 | Free will is mental causation in action [McGinn] |
2543 | Brains aren't made of anything special, suggesting panpsychism [McGinn] |
2540 | Examining mind sees no brain; examining brain sees no mind [McGinn] |
2547 | There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn] |
2542 | Causation in the material world is energy-transfer, of motion, electricity or gravity [McGinn] |