Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pindar, Ruth Garrett Millikan and Anjan Chakravarrty

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

15145

A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

15147

Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

12582

The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

15144

Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

23801

Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

15146

Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

15151

Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty]