Mind/body redux
Descartes is associated with this mind/body theory
Substance dualism
This wasp is used as an example of how humans have evolved to have reason (and thus free will)
Sphex
John Searle
The term "intuition pump" is associated with this American philosopher
Daniel Dennett
In considering the garden of forking paths, we looked at four categories of what to do with the dropped wallet that Ben F found on the ground: keep the wallet, leave the wallet, return the wallet, and this...
Eat the wallet
Dualists rely heavily on this idea, which captures the subjectivity of human experience, in defence of why the mind cannot be purely physical.
Qualia
Hard determinists and libertarians both fall under this label, who think that free will and determinism are not compatible.
Incompatibilists
This philosopher is a big fan of using complicated mathematical equations to outline his theory of free will, which predominantly hinges on the fact that because we hold people morally responsible, we must have free will.
Peter van Inwagen
The original intuition pump is this Greek guy's cave allegory
Plato
Descartes' demon is represented by the Pringles man. The free will demon is represented by this other chip mascot.
Chester the Cheetah
This mind/body theory argues that strong AI is possible and that humans and computers can have a functionally equivalent type of consciousness
Functionalism
A step further than hard determinism, people who subscribe to this philosophy don't see the point in even trying to do anything because the events are already determined.
Fatalism
The man who refined the thought experiment of Philosophical Zombies was born in this country
Australia
This intuition pump, about a chip being inserted in someone's brain, is used to argue why you shouldn't tell people they don't have free will.
The Nefarious Neurosurgeon
This man struggled while serving in the Vietnam War, having only his musket to defend himself with
Philbrick Kubrick
The problem of interaction
This hard determinist argues that you wouldn't want revenge on a bear that attacked you, so what's the point in being angry at a human with no free will who attacked you?
Sam Harris
This philosopher explores the idea of free will by considering the "choice" between a piece of chocolate cake and a peach
Thomas Nagel
To explore the subjective nature of consciousness, Nagel proposed that we imagine being this animal
A bat
Joe Bloggs
This monist theory argues that everything is made up of consciousness
Panpsychism
This man, to explore the garden of forking paths theory, proposes a scenario where a man (Ben Franklin, for example) comes upon a wallet on the ground
Robert Kane
In support of hard determinism, this French guy proposes the idea of an all-knowing demon, who, if he could understand every atom in the world, would understand everything that had ever happened and will ever happen
La Place
This philosopher proposed an intuition pump to challenge the principle of alternate possibilities
Harry Frankfurt
After Abraham Lincoln pushed Ben Franklin off Liberty Hall, this man shot Franklin from a window halfway down.
Alexander Hamilton