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• Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
• Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that…
• I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
• equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring…
• To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single…
• A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…
• The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,…
• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the…
• The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…
• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…
• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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