Mind & Body
The knowledge argument
What is the argument that the mind is radically different from anything physical since we can know one without knowing the other?
The body swapping argument
What is the argument that people ≠ their bodies, since people can swap bodies?
The design argument
What is the argument that God likely exists since nature appears to be intelligently designed?
The free will defense
What is the objection to the problem of evil?
The conceivability argument
What is the argument that the mind is radically different from anything physical since we can imagine one without imagining the other?
The soul swapping argument
What is the argument that people ≠ souls, since people are recognizable in ways that souls are not?
The problem of evil
What is the argument that likely no all-good God exists, given the presence of suffering such a God would prevent?
A perfect island
What is an objection to the ontological argument?
Berkeley's Master Argument
What is the argument that everything that exists must be a mind or a mind's idea, since anything else is literally inconceivable?
The branching argument
What is the argument that people ≠ their memories (or preservation of memories), since our memories can be preserved in two separate people, neither of which would be us?
The cosmological argument
What is the argument that God must exist since everything--the universe included--must come from something else?
Natural selection
What is an objection to the design argument?
The Argument from Conflicting Sensations
What is the argument that what we experience is not reality (direct realism is false), since people's sensations can be inconsistent with one another?
If we get most of our opinions from those around us, why should that make us skeptical of our own beliefs?
Since hearsay is not reliably true, we wouldn't be justified in holding those beliefs. And since knowledge requires justification, those beliefs couldn't amount to knowledge.
The ontological argument
What is the argument that God must exist, given our ability to think about God?
Quantum mechanics & God
What is a counterexample to the cosmological argument's premise that everything happens for a reason?
Would a 100% correlation between mind & body prove physicalism / disprove dualism?
No: dualism allows they're correlated but insists they're distinct (e.g., as cause and effect); what matters isn't whether they ARE but whether they MUST be 100% correlated (or: whether it's a COHERENT, not LIKELY, possibility for one to exist without the other).
What is meant by a "zombie," why might you be one, and what is that supposed to show about your ordinary beliefs about yourself?
A zombie is physical duplicate of you lacking consciousness. Insofar as all our evidence comes from our environment, but that environment would be the same if we were a zombie, our evidence leaves it open that we're a zombie.
The fine-tuning argument
What is the argument that God likely exists since the laws of physics just barely allow for intelligent life?
The existence of the multi-verse
What is an objection to the fine-tuning argument, since it would explain why the laws of physics appear fine-tuned for life?