Descartes Walks Into A Bar
Putting the Con in Consciousness
Religions Fill in the ____s of Life
You Can't Handle The Truth
Mixed Bag of Tricks
100
The view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge or any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification.
What is rationalism?
100
The problem of explaining how and why humans have phenomenal experiences.
What is the hard problem of consciousness?
100
________ argues that the universe is organized in an interconnected purposeful way. The complexity of the eye is usually used as an example to support this argument.
What is the argument from design?
100
A proposition that is true in every possible world. An example this type that many philosophers take to be correct is: 2+2 = 4.
What is a necessary truth?
100
A term is _____ if it has more than one meaning.
What is ambiguous?
200
The idea that one can only truly know that one's mind exists.
What is solipsism?
200
Aspects of consciousness that represent some ability, or the performance of some function or behavior that can be explained through physical/scientific means.
What is the easy problem of consciousness?
200
The paradox of omnipotence states _________.
What is if a being is capable of performing any action, then it can create a task which it is unable to perform, which would mean it can not actually perform all actions.
200
Knowledge that is assumed to be purely rational, it is independent of experience. For example, "All bachelors are unmarried".
What is a priori knowledge?
200
The view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events
What is epiphenomenalism?
300
Rather than directly perceiving something, which would entail seeing it as it truly is, we must instead perceive it indirectly, by way of an image or "sense-datum". This mental representation does not tell us anything about the true properties of the thing, which remain inaccessible to us.
What is the argument from illusion?
300
_____ dispels the assumption that as soon as a certain kind of software is running on a computer, a conscious being is thereby created, by proposing the ______ thought experiment.
Who is Searle and the Chinese room.
300
According to _____, existence is perfect and since a Supreme Being must be perfect, it follows that this Supreme Being MUST exist.
What is the ontological argument?
300
A proposition that is not necessarily true or false (i.e., is not the negation of a necessary truth). A true proposition that could have been false or a false proposition that could have been true. An example of this is a person's name.
What is a contingent truth?
300
A term is ____ if it has a clear meaning but there are borderline cases in which the term may or may not apply.
What is vagueness?
400
This theory can be classified as monist, dualist, or pluralist.
What is substance theory?
400
Its primary claim is that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not actually exist.
What is eliminative materialism?
400
In order to explain the imperfect nature of a reality created by an All Good Supreme Being, _________ was philosophized to exist by Descartes.
What is an evil demon?
400
Knowledge or justification that is dependent on experience or empirical evidence. For example, "Some bachelors are very unhappy".
What is a posteriori/empirical knowledge?
400
_____ is the set of things to which a term applies to.
What is extension?
500
Descartes' reason for stating "I perceive it [i.e., what the wax is] through the mind alone....[The perception of the wax] is an inspection of the mind alone."
What is to show the power of the mind to reflect on or attend to its own ideas (the utilization of pure reason) as distinct from the power of sensing (e.g., seeing or touching).
500
Final Jeopardy Category : Reasoning
This is an example of inductive and deductive reasoning.
500
If one behaves as though God exists because the possible punishment of greatly outweighs any advantages of believing otherwise, you are enacting ________.
What is Pascal's Wager?
500
If you believe in a priori knowledge you are a ______ and if you believe in empirical knowledge, you are a ______.
What is rationalist and empiricist?
500
______ is the concept associated with the meaning of a term.
What is intension?
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