Mind and Body
The position that mind and body are separate entities.
What is dualism?
The two examples that Nagle outlines of beings we cannot know the subjective experience of.
What are bats and aliens?
A position that argues that pursuing my self-interest justifies an action.
What is egoism?
What are the three sections of the (current) VCE Philosophy exam and their total mark value?
Section A: Short answer (30m)
Section B: Long answer (20m)
Section C: Essay (20m)
'Schwanda' is created after a horrific accident with what?
A steamroller.
The position that human action is a matter of conditioned response.
What is behaviourism?
The amalgamation of Wanda's brain and your body.
Who is 'Schwanda'?
How many marks are allocated to each Area of Study according to the Philosophy Study Design?
U3 AOS 1: 50
U3 AOS 2: 50
U4 AOS 1: 60
U4 AOS 2: 40
Name the two other speaking characters from Plato's Gorgias apart from Socrates, Gorgias and Callicles.
Polus and Chaerephon
A distinction made between the way something is conveyed in language and its nature in existence.
What is the semantic/ontological distinction?
An analogy used by Hume to argue that sensations change with rapidity.
What is the theatre analogy?
Aristotle states that this is the "master art".
What is politics according to Aristotle?
What are the six key concepts for U4 AOS 2?
Power; creativity; freedom; control; dependency; reality
Name the three ideas of association identified by Hume.
Resemblance; contiguity; causation
An argument used by Descartes to assert the possibility of a priori knowledge.
An important mechanism in both Locke and Hume's philosophy providing evidence for personal identity.
What is memory?
This is opposed to rhetoric as an area of expertise in Plato's Gorgias.
What is justice?
Thought experiments are assessible content in what Unit and Area of Study in VCE Philosophy?
U3 AOS 2 - Personal Identity
Identify four cases Wolf uses as examples of meaningless lives (or activity).
Smoking pot all day
Doing crossword puzzles
Doing Sudokus
Writing handwritten copies of War and Peace
Someone who dedicates their life to their goldfish
Devoting one's life to the care of someone else
Alienated housewife
A conscripted soldier
An assembly line worker
Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill
Nagel's attempt to structure a theory which might explain subjective experience from an external point of view.
What is Nagel's 'objective phenomenology'?
The logical law that can be used to demonstrate a flaw in Locke's Memory Theory of identity.
What is the axiom of transitivity?
In this section of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche argues that 'fear is the mother of morality."
What is Section 201?
Which of the following key skills is assessable in each Area of Study?
- critically compare viewpoints and arguments...
- situate the set texts in their context...
- interpret and synthesise source material...
- recognise arguments, identifying premises and conclusions...
Critically compare viewpoints and arguments...
There are five assessable objections given by Smart in 'Sensations and Brain Processes.'
Classify each objection with their number.
Any illiterate peasant...
It is only a contingent fact...
The after image
Molecular movement
Sensations are private...
1: Any illiterate peasant...
2: It is only a contingent fact...
4: The after image
5: Molecular movement
6: Sensations are private...