12 ideas
7920 | Descriptive metaphysics aims at actual structure, revisionary metaphysics at a better structure [Strawson,P] |
7922 | Descriptive metaphysics concerns unchanging core concepts and categories [Strawson,P] |
7921 | Close examination of actual word usage is the only sure way in philosophy [Strawson,P] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
9282 | I can only apply consciousness predicates to myself if I can apply them to others [Strawson,P] |
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] |
9263 | A person is an entity to which we can ascribe predicates of consciousness and corporeality [Strawson,P] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
9281 | The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied [Strawson,P] |
23692 | Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot] |