Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Shaughan Lavine and E.J. Lowe

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
6648 Some behaviourists believe thought is just suppressed speech [Lowe]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality
6651 People are wildly inaccurate in estimating probabilities about an observed event [Lowe]
6652 'Base rate neglect' makes people favour the evidence over its background [Lowe]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
7715 Mentalese isn't a language, because it isn't conventional, or a means of public communication [Lowe]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
6655 The 'Frame Problem' is how to program the appropriate application of general knowledge [Lowe]
6657 Computers can't be rational, because they lack motivation and curiosity [Lowe]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / c. Turing Test
6656 The Turing test is too behaviourist, and too verbal in its methods [Lowe]
18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
6636 The naturalistic views of how content is created are the causal theory and the teleological theory [Lowe]
18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
6633 Twin Earth cases imply that even beliefs about kinds of stuff are indexical [Lowe]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
16535 A concept is a way of thinking of things or kinds, whether or not they exist [Lowe]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
8299 Abstractions are non-spatial, or dependent, or derived from concepts [Lowe]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4237 Concrete and abstract objects are distinct because the former have causal powers and relations [Lowe]
4238 The centre of mass of the solar system is a non-causal abstract object, despite having a location [Lowe]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
8306 You can think of a direction without a line, but a direction existing with no lines is inconceivable [Lowe]