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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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9 ideas

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

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All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

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Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

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A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition

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Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

4741	A very powerful computer might have its operations restricted by the addition of consciousness [Clark,T]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

6866	It is disturbing if we become unreal when we die, but if time is unreal, then we remain real after death [Le Poidevin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

6867	Existentialism focuses on freedom and self-making, and insertion into the world [Le Poidevin]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

6865	A-theory says past, present, future and flow exist; B-theory says this just reports our perspective [Le Poidevin]