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All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'Philosophical Studies 1611-19' and 'Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7068	If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

7075	To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]

7069	The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

16625

In hylomorphism all the explanation of actions is in the form, and the matter doesn't do anything [Bacon]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

15793

We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7067	Food first, then ethics [Critchley]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter

16624

Stripped and passive matter is just a human invention [Bacon]