11 ideas
7822 | A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century [Lipsius, by Grayling] |
6375 | The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
6378 | Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger] |
6380 | Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
6379 | A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger] |
6377 | Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger] |