Ideas from 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' by Frank Jackson [1998], by Theme Structure

[found in 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' by Jackson,Frank [OUP 2000,0-19-825061-4]].

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

6979	Serious metaphysics cares about entailment between sentences

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

6983	Intuitions about possibilities are basic to conceptual analysis

6980	Conceptual analysis studies whether one story is made true by another story

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Conceptual analysis is needed to establish that metaphysical reductions respect original meanings [Schroeter]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

7005	Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths

6994	Truth supervenes on being

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6984	Smooth reductions preserve high-level laws in the lower level

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

6978	Baldness is just hair distribution, but the former is indeterminate, unlike the latter

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

6993	Redness is a property, but only as a presentation to normal humans

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity

6987	We should not multiply senses of necessity beyond necessity

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

6988	Mathematical sentences are a problem in a possible-worlds framework

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

6975	Possible worlds could be concrete, abstract, universals, sentences, or properties

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

6982	Long arithmetic calculations show the a priori can be fallible

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / a. Qualities in perception

6991	We examine objects to determine colour; we do not introspect

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6976	In physicalism, the psychological depends on the physical, not the other way around

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind

6986	Is the dependence of the psychological on the physical a priori or a posteriori?

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

6992	If different states can fulfil the same role, the converse must also be possible

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

6996	Folk psychology covers input, internal role, and output

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

6977	Egocentric or de se content seems to be irreducibly so

18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth

6990	Keep distinct the essential properties of water, and application conditions for the word 'water'

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / c. Classical concepts

6985	Analysis is finding necessary and sufficient conditions by studying possible cases

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates

6995	Successful predication supervenes on nature

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

6989	I can understand "He has a beard", without identifying 'he', and hence the truth conditions

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

6998	Folk morality does not clearly distinguish between doing and allowing

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

6997	Moral functionalism says moral terms get their meaning from their role in folk morality

7000	Which are prior - thin concepts like right, good, ought; or thick concepts like kindness, equity etc.?

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

6999	It is hard to justify the huge difference in our judgements of abortion and infanticide