Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short answer and long answer. There will be 6-8 short answer questions of which you pick 4-5. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences. There will be 3 long answer questions, of which you pick 2. Answers should be about 2 blue-book pages, front and back. The exam is scheduled for Wednesday, November 11 at our regular class time, our regular class place. There will be a brief review in class on Monday, October 9 and on the discussion forum, if you choose to use it.

Some Terms

Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Sound
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
Modus Ponens
Possible Worlds
A Priori
A Posteriori
Leibniz's Law
Transitivity of Identity
Eliminativism
Realism
Reductionism
Fictionalism
Free Will Problem
Free Will Thesis
Determinism
Indeterminism
Incompatibilism Thesis
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Hard Determinism



Arguments and Objections

Hume on Personal Identity (what is his view and why?)
Unger's Sorites Argument for Eliminativism about persons (i.e., that he does not exist)
Argle's first argument for why holes do not exist.
Bargle's Objections to thes argument.
Argle's later arguments for why holes do exist, and that wholes are holes are 'hole-lingings'.
Bargle's Objections to these arguments.
Chisholm's Argument for Libertarianism.
Objections Agianst Chisholm's Arguments
Van Inwagen's Arguments Against Compatibilism (for Hard Determinism)
Objections Against Van Inwagen's Arguments
Ayer's Arguments for Compatibilism
Objections Against

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