Things
to Know
for the
Final Exam
Format:
The exam will consist of two parts: short answer and long answer, just like
Midterm I and Midterm II. The exam is scheduled for JUNE 15 at 11:30am, in
our regular class place. Please bring your bluebooks, or sheets of blank
paper with a cover sheet (So I can grand blind).
Some Terms
Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Sound
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
Possible Worlds
A Priori
A Posteriori
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnibenevolence
Paradox of Omnipotence
Fallacy of Composition
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
Brute Facts
Argument by Analogy
Anselm's Definition of God
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Existence in the Mind
Existence in Reality
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Identity
Living/Dead, Forced/Avoidable, Trivial/Momentous
Options (James)
Unfalsifiable Theories
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnibenevolence
The Paradox of Omnipotence
The Paradox of Omniscence (with Free Will)
Moral vs. Natural Evil
The Free Will Thesis
Causal Determinism
Incompatibilism
Hard Determinism
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Divine Command Theory
Slave Morality
Transvaluation of Values
The Unexamined Life
Wisdom, according to Socrates
Principles, Arguments, and Objections
The
Cosmological Argument--Aquinas' Second Way or The Argument from Causation
Aquinas' argument for premise 3 (of The Second Way)
The Problem with Aquinas' argument for premise 3 (of The Second Way)
"Infinity is weird" objection
"Infinity if Weird? BFD!" response
Hilbert's Hotel
Series of Walls Example
The Teleological Argument
Hume's Objections to the Teleological Argument
The Problem of Induction
The Ontological Argument
Daniel's Greatest Conceivable Space Monkey Example (or Guanilo's Perfect
Island Objection)
Kant's Objection: Existence is not a Predicate
Inconceivability Objection (against GCB)
Existence in the Mind and Criterion of Identity
"Greater than"? WTF?
Pascal's Wager
'Beliefs are Not Voluntary' Objection
'Beliefs in God Cannot be the Result of a Wager' Objection
The Anti-God Objection
W. K. Clifford's Objection
James' Response
Unfalsifiable Theories and How this Applies to Pascal's Wager (e.g., The
Dragon in My Garage, and the Gardner Parable., etc.)
The Problem of Evil
Attempted Solutions to the Problem of Evil (on hand-out and in the Mackie
article), and why they fail (according to Mackie).
Free Will and the Problem of Evil: Defense and Objections
The Free Will Problem
Science vs. Religion (Worrall's Arguments)
The Euthyprho Problem
Nietzsche's Theory of "Good" and "Bad"
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