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All the ideas for 'Does Consciousness Exist?', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'Internal and External Reasons'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

19090

If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

9286	Consciousness is not a stuff, but is explained by the relations between experiences [James]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

9285	'Consciousness' is a nonentity, a mere echo of the disappearing 'soul' [James]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]