Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Speussipus, Richard Posner and Ruth Garrett Millikan

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5 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

594	Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle]

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

12582

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

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

23801

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

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy

21131

Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]