12 ideas
21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
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] |
21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
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] |
21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
20746 | One is not born, but rather becomes a woman [Beauvoir] |
21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |