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All the ideas for 'Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000', 'works' and 'teachings'

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

8132	We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism

8126	Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge]

8127	Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

8129	Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism

8131	Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7607	Nagarjuna and others pronounced the world of experience to be an illusion [Nagarjuna, by Armstrong,K]