Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short answer and long answer. There will be about 8-10 short answer questions of which you pick 6-8. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences. There will be 3-4 long answer questions, of which you pick 2. Answers should be about 2 blue-book pages.This exam is optional, and will replace the third paper. So if you take the exam, you do not have to write a third paper. The exam is scheduled for Wednesday April 12. If you are writing the paper instead of taking the exam, you do not have to come to class this day.  

Some Terms

Monism
Dualsim
Mental Properties
Physical Properties
Materialism
Immaterialism
Mind/Body Dualism
Behaviorism
Identity Theory
Functionalism
Qualia

Principles, Arguments, and Objections

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

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