55 ideas
| 23948 | Wisdom needs both thought and passion, with each reflecting on the other [Solomon] |
| 23942 | Philosophy is creating an intellectual conceptual structure for life [Solomon] |
| 11051 | Frege's logical approach dominates the analytical tradition [Hanna] |
| 11054 | Scientism says most knowledge comes from the exact sciences [Hanna] |
| 23945 | Reason is actually passions, guided by perspicacious reflection [Solomon] |
| 11071 | 'Affirming the consequent' fallacy: φ→ψ, ψ, so φ [Hanna] |
| 11070 | 'Denying the antecedent' fallacy: φ→ψ, ¬φ, so ¬ψ [Hanna] |
| 11088 | We can list at least fourteen informal fallacies [Hanna] |
| 11059 | Circular arguments are formally valid, though informally inadmissible [Hanna] |
| 11089 | Formally, composition and division fallacies occur in mereology [Hanna] |
| 11058 | Logic is explanatorily and ontologically dependent on rational animals [Hanna] |
| 11072 | Logic is personal and variable, but it has a universal core [Hanna] |
| 11061 | Intensional consequence is based on the content of the concepts [Hanna] |
| 11063 | Logicism struggles because there is no decent theory of analyticity [Hanna] |
| 11055 | Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection [Hanna] |
| 11083 | A sentence is necessary if it is true in a set of worlds, and nonfalse in the other worlds [Hanna] |
| 11086 | Metaphysical necessity can be 'weak' (same as logical) and 'strong' (based on essences) [Hanna] |
| 11084 | Logical necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds, because of laws and concepts [Hanna] |
| 11085 | Nomological necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds with our laws [Hanna] |
| 23957 | We often trust our intuitions as rational, despite their lack of reflection [Solomon] |
| 11077 | Intuition includes apriority, clarity, modality, authority, fallibility and no inferences [Hanna] |
| 11080 | Intuition is more like memory, imagination or understanding, than like perception [Hanna] |
| 11078 | Intuition is only outside the 'space of reasons' if all reasons are inferential [Hanna] |
| 11053 | Explanatory reduction is stronger than ontological reduction [Hanna] |
| 23943 | Distinguishing reason from passion is based on an archaic 'faculty' theory [Solomon] |
| 11081 | Imagination grasps abstracta, generates images, and has its own correctness conditions [Hanna] |
| 11082 | Should we take the 'depictivist' or the 'descriptivist/propositionalist' view of mental imagery? [Hanna] |
| 23960 | Emotions are defined by their objects [Solomon] |
| 23965 | Emotions can be analysed under fifteen headings [Solomon] |
| 23952 | I say bodily chemistry and its sensations have nothing to do with emotions [Solomon] |
| 23954 | Emotions are judgements about ourselves, and our place in the world [Solomon] |
| 23961 | The heart of an emotion is its judgement of values and morality [Solomon] |
| 23959 | Some emotions are externally directed, others internally [Solomon] |
| 23946 | The passions are subjective, concerning what is important to me, rather than facts [Solomon] |
| 23940 | Emotions are strategies for maximising our sense of dignity and self-esteem [Solomon] |
| 23949 | Passions exist as emotions, moods and desires, which all generate meaning [Solomon] |
| 23956 | The Myth of the Passions says they are irrational, uncontrolled and damaging [Solomon] |
| 23963 | Which emotions we feel depends on our sense of our own powers [Solomon] |
| 23936 | It is only our passions which give our lives meaning [Solomon] |
| 23953 | Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon] |
| 23964 | There are no 'basic' emotions, only socially prevalent ones [Solomon] |
| 23937 | It is reason which needs the anchorage of passions, rather than vice versa [Solomon] |
| 23947 | Dividing ourselves into confrontational reason and passion destroys our harmonious whole [Solomon] |
| 23958 | The supposed irrationality of our emotions is often tactless or faulty expression of them [Solomon] |
| 11046 | Kantian principled rationality is recognition of a priori universal truths [Hanna] |
| 11048 | Humean Instrumental rationality is the capacity to seek contingent truths [Hanna] |
| 11067 | Rational animals have a normative concept of necessity [Hanna] |
| 11047 | Hegelian holistic rationality is the capacity to seek coherence [Hanna] |
| 11068 | One tradition says talking is the essence of rationality; the other says the essence is logic [Hanna] |
| 11045 | Most psychologists are now cognitivists [Hanna] |
| 16383 | Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke] |
| 23944 | Emotions are our life force, and the source of most of our values [Solomon] |
| 23962 | Lovers adopt the interests of their beloved, rather than just valuing them [Solomon] |
| 23941 | 'Absurdity' is just the result of our wrong choices in life [Solomon] |
| 23955 | Ideologies are mythologies which guide our actions [Solomon] |