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Ideas of Owen Flanagan, by Text
[American, fl. 1992, Professor at Duke University.]
2002
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The Problem of the Soul
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Pref
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p.-8
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5332
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People believe they have free will that circumvents natural law, but only an incorporeal mind could do this
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p. 14
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p.14
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5334
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We resist science partly because it can't provide ethical wisdom
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p. 14
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p.14
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5333
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Philosophy needs wisdom about who we are, as well as how we ought to be
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p. 16
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p.16
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5335
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Emotions are usually very apt, rather than being non-rational and fickle
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p. 17
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p.17
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5336
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Ethics is the science of the conditions that lead to human flourishing
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p. 60n
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p.60
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5338
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Normal free will claims control of what I do, but a stronger view claims control of thought and feeling
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p. 65
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p.65
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5339
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Cars and bodies obey principles of causation, without us knowing any 'strict laws' about them
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p. 73n
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p.73
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5340
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Explanation does not entail prediction
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p. 87
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p.87
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5341
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Only you can have your subjective experiences because only you are hooked up to your nervous system
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p. 90
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p.90
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5342
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Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser
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p.102
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p.102
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5343
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People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free
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p.104
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p.104
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5344
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Free will is held to give us a whole list of desirable capacities for living
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p.107
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p.107
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5345
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We only think of ourselves as having free will because we first thought of God that way
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p.136
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p.136
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5346
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In the 17th century a collisionlike view of causation made mental causation implausible
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p.141
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p.141
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5347
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Behaviourism notoriously has nothing to say about mental causation
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p.145
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p.145
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5348
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Intellectualism admires the 'principled actor', non-intellectualism admires the 'good character'
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p.161
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p.161
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5349
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For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion
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p.166n
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p.166
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5350
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The Hindu doctrine of reincarnation only appeared in the eighth century CE
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p.178
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p.178
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5351
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We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same
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p.181
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p.181
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5352
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The idea of the soul gets some support from the scientific belief in essential 'natural kinds'
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p.240
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p.240
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5353
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The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography
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p.260
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p.260
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5354
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We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living
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p.301n
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p.301
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5355
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Cognitivists think morals are discovered by reason
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2007
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The Really Hard Problem
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2 'Darwin'
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p.47
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21830
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For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics
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2 'Expanding'
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p.58
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21831
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Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it
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3 'Buddhism'
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p.68
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21832
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Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom
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3 'Ontology'
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p.90
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21833
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Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience
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3 'Ontology'
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p.94
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21834
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Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be
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4 'Naturalism'
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p.126
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21837
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Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices
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4 'Normative'
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p.107
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21835
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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish
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