Logic
P
P → Q
Therefore ??
What is Q?
There used to be a moose head mounted in the Gluck Library. At one point, this moose was kidnapped and held for ransom at gunpoint. This moose was lovingly known by this name.
What is "G.E. Moose"?
Symbolic Logic course number
What is 2500?
This one involves a lever.
What is the Trolley Problem?
The problem of how and why organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience.
What is the hard problem of consciousness?
¬(p ∧ q) ≡
¬p ∨ ¬q
This guy said everything was in a state of flux.
Who was Heraclitus?
Leighton Undergraduate Philosophy Club began in this year
What is 1901
The Ship of Theseus helps us think about this metaphysical notion.
What is identity?
Who is Susan Sontag?
This logic holds that the double negation of a proposition (¬¬p) is not equivalent to the original proposition (p).
What is Intuitionistic/Constructive logic?
This philosopher credits his survival of a plane crash to a smoking habit
Bertrand Russell
This professor is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Who is Stewart Shapiro?
What is the evil demon (evil genius)?
The argument that du Châtelet uses for the existence of GOD?
What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason?
Any consistent formal system of arithmetic contains statements which are true but unprovable in that system
A consistent formal system cannot prove its own consistency
What is Gödel’s incompleteness theorem?
This philosopher is the granddaughter of US president Grover Cleveland
Phillipa Foot
This author of “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” briefly taught in the philosophy department from 1956-62
What is the veil of ignorance?
Which philosopher is credited with the Asymmetry Argument for antinatalism?
Who is David Benatar?
If Γ is consistent, then Γ has a countable model
What is Löwenheim-Skolem theorem?
Jean-Paul Sartre dabbled with this psychedelic drug, notably being haunted by lobster-esque entities for weeks following the trip.
What is mescaline? (Derived from peyote)
A favorite phrase of Dr. Neil Tennant, this means to be puzzling on something, to be stumped, or to be actively trying to solve it.
What is "nutting over it"?
To demonstrate the notion of quantum superposition, this guy risks animal abuse charges, placing his cat in a (perhaps dangerous) box.
This is the title of the thought experiment.
Spell his name correctly, with accents.
Schrödinger's Cat
There is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and the real numbers.
What is the continuum hypothesis?