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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Aspects of Scientific Explanation'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

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Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]

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Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

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Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

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Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

6755	For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird]

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The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

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

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Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]