Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hesiod, Richard Jeffrey and Matthew Cobb

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5 ideas

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 / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

19155

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

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

23226

There is a single mouse neuron which has 862 inputs and 626 outputs [Cobb]

23216

The brain is not passive, and merely processing inputs; it is active, and intervenes in the world [Cobb]

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]