What do I know?
Losing my mind
Me, myself, and I
People
Life and Death
100
The name for the branch of philosophy concerned with questions of knowledge.
What is epistemology?
100
The idea formulated by Descartes that the mind and the body are separate kinds of substances.
What is Cartesian dualism?
100
The bit of self or soul that exists and endures, apart from the body, was characterized by John Locke as this.
What is an immaterial substance?
100
The philosopher who said, "I am thinking, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
100
The phase of conscious existence that some believe happens following one's death.
What is the afterlife.
200
The process of gaining knowledge through one's senses.
What is sense-perception?
200
This Latin word refers to "what it's like", perception of experience, for instance, what pain feels like, or what coffee tastes like.
What is qualia?
200
The title of a South American writer's short story about the inner and outer selves.
What is Borges and I?
200
The philosopher who coined the phrase, "epistemic injustice."
Who is Miranda Fricker?
200
A name for the technique of thinking carefully about right and wrong.
What is moral reasoning?
300
An idea or unit of knowledge that exists as it is because people have collectively created it.
What is a social construct?
300
A name for the possibility that other people might not actually have minds inside their bodies.
What is the Zombie possibility?
300
A name for the state of being aware of one's mind and self.
What is consciousness?
300
The philosopher who said, "To be is to be perceived."
Who is George Berkeley?
300
David Eagleman's story Death Switch describes a world where there is an illusion created that people are alive when they're not. In the story, what is the main mechanism that makes it seem like someone is alive who is really dead?
What are auto-responder algorithms?
400
The term for what happens when a receiver reduces the credibility of a knower because of some prejudice the receiver has.
What is testimonial injustice?
400
Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought experiment questioning whether your knowledge of your own mind is sufficient to conclude that others have minds like you, too.
What is the beetle in the box?
400
A figure of thought associated with the idea of a coherent and enduring self, where there is a ship whose various parts are all gradually replaced.
What is the ship of Theseus?
400
The philosopher who believed that in order to figure out how to distribute a thing, we must first figure out what its essential nature or purpose (also called telos) is.
Who is Aristotle?
400
In describing the need of the soul for honor, Simone Weil used this metaphor to illustrate what happens when the noble traditions possessed by those suffering oppression go unrecognized.
What is a famine?
500
Descartes' idea that perhaps our sense-perception of reality is all an illusion created by some entity outside ourselves.
What is the evil demon/deceiver argument?
500
John Searle's thought experiment about artificial intelligence.
What is the Chinese Room Experiment?
500
An officer was spanked as a child, promoted to standard-bearer, and then promoted to general. The standard-bearer remembers being spanked, and the general remembers bearing the standard, but doesn't remember being spanked as a child. Thomas Reid argued that this thought experiment illustrated something about the self. What was this objection called?
What is the brave officer objection?
500
The 21st century philosopher who came up with the self-model theory of subjectivity, who thinks the self is not a thing, but a process.
Who is Thomas Metzinger?
500
As described by Julian Baggini, Leibniz's argument about becoming the King of China illustrates a question about the annihilation of this.
What is the self?
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