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All the ideas for 'Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000', 'Causality and Explanation' and 'The Tragic Sense of Life'

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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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Salmon's mechanisms are processes and interactions, involving marks, or conserved quantities [Salmon, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

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]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]