Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Herodotus, Richard Jeffrey and Terence Horgan

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9 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]

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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

1513	The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]