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Ideas for 'works', 'Philippa Foot's Moral Thought' and 'Lewis: reduction of mind (on himself)'

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

3992	Folk psychology makes good predictions, by associating mental states with causal roles [Lewis]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / c. Animal rationality

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Aristotle and the Stoics denied rationality to animals, while Platonists affirmed it [Aristotle, by Sorabji]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

3996	Folk psychology doesn't say that there is a language of thought [Lewis]

18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content

3998	If you don't share an external world with a brain-in-a-vat, then externalism says you don't share any beliefs [Lewis]

3997	Nothing shows that all content is 'wide', or that wide content has logical priority [Lewis]

3999	A spontaneous duplicate of you would have your brain states but no experience, so externalism would deny him any beliefs [Lewis]

4000	Wide content derives from narrow content and relationships with external things [Lewis]