Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hesiod, Phil Dowe and Stephen Schiffer

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6 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

19508

Contextualism needs a semantics for knowledge sentences that are partly indexical [Schiffer,S]

19509

The indexical aspect of contextual knowledge might be hidden, or it might be in what 'know' means [Schiffer,S]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

20239

Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

4787	Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos]

14586

Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4788	Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos]