Things to Know for the
Final Exam
Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short
answer and
long answer. There will be about 15-20 short answer questions of which
you pick 10-12. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences.
There will be 6-8 long answer questions, of which you pick 4. Answers
should be about 2 blue-book pages. The exam is scheduled for Monday May 1 at 8:00am. A
review session will be held Sunday April 30 at 7pm in Caldwell 105.
Some Terms (categorized
by unit)
Unit 1: Logic, God:
Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Sound
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
A Priori
A posteriori
Anselm's Definition of God (for his version of the Ontological
Argument)
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Existence in the Mind
Existence in Reality
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
Brute Facts
Argument by Analogy
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omni benevolence
Unit 2:Knowledge and Skepticism:
Cogito Ergo Sum
Skepticism
Skeptical Hypotheses
Global and Local Hypotheses
Closure
metaphysics vs. epistemology
Direct Realism
Indirect Realism
Idealism
Unit 3: Mind-Body/Personal Identity/Identity Over Time:
Qualitative Identity
Quantitative Identity
Person-Stages View of Personal Identity
Monism
Dualism
Mental Properties
Physical Properties
Materialism
Immaterialism
Mind/Body Dualism
Behaviorism
Identity Theory
Functionalism
Qualia
Unit 4: Free Will and Love:
Hard Determinism
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Philia
Eros
Principles, Arguments,
and
Objections (categorized by unit)
Unit 1: God
The Ontological Argument
Guanilo's Perfect Island Objection
Existence is not a Predicate
Inconceivability Objection (against GCB)
Existence in the Mind and Criterion of Identity
"Greater than" objection
The Cosmological Argument (The
Second Way)
Aquinas' argument for premise 3 (of The Second Way)
The Teleological Argument
2 Objections to the Teleological Argument
The Problem of Evil
Attempted but inadequate solutions to the Problem of Evil
The Euthyphro Problem
Ressentiment
Transvaluation of Values
Slave Morality
Unit 2:Knowledge and Skepticism:
Descartes' Two Methods of Doubt
Descartes' Three Skeptical Hypotheses
Argument from Skeptical Hypotheses (using closure)
G. E. Moore's Response (common sense defense)
Denying Closure
Contextualism
Perceptual Relativity and Variability (against Direct Realism)
Perceptual Relativity and Variability (against Indirect Realism)
The Veil of Perception
The Inconceivability Argument (against Indirect Realism)
Unit 3: Mind-Body/Personal
Identity/Identity Over Time:
Miller's View of Personal Identity
Weirob's View of Personal Identity
Occam's Razor
Anti-Spooky Principle
Account for the Data
Leibniz's Law
Argument from Introspection
Argument from Conceivability
Argument from Semantic Properties
Problem of Causal Interaction
Problem of Confirmation (i.e., The Problem of Unfalsifiable Theories)
Problem of Other Minds
Problem of Individuation of Spirits
Continuity of Nature
Dispositions (e.g., "soluble", "fragile", etc.), and how this relates
to mental terminology
Qualia, and how it is a problem for the Behaviorist
Irreducibility of Mental Terms
Continuity of Nature
Neural Dependence of Mental Phenomena
Success of Neuroscience
Mary Argument
Multiple Realizability
Zombies
Free Will
Inverted Spectrum
Searle's Chinese Room
People of China
Unit 4: Free Will and Love:
The Free Will Problem
Causal Determinism
The Free Will Thesis
Incompatibilism
Various views on love in the Symposium
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