Logic
A popular structure in formal deduction
Syllogism
There is an interconnectedness that exists between the body and the mind.
Dualism
I believe knowledge is innate and allow deductive logic to guide my reasoning.
What is: A Rationalist
This philosopher's central question is: Where is the good?
Who Is: Levinas
Student, Teacher, Idealist, Rationalist, Author
Plato
This deductive argument has an issue with its structure. Therefore, it is.
Invalid
Tabula Rasa suggests
We are born with a blank slate. Born knowing nothing.
What are the necessary and sufficient conditions of knowledge?
Justified - True - Belief
You can't bear to see your child be scared, so you lie to her about a magical cape.
This is unethical from a ____________ perspective.
Deontological - Moral Categorical Reasoning
Cogito Ergo Sum
Rene Descartes
Rewording your conclusion as if it were evidence
Begging the question
Those souls who live seeking honour & prestige
Spirit
Empiricists believe that knowlege is?
a posteriori
Also known as virtue ethics
Teleology
The father of formal logic
Aristotle
If P, then Q
Q.
Therefore, P.
Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent
Which philosophical position would assert that humans are able to exert their will in the world, often creating brand new causal pathways?
Agency Theory
This is required. If absent, the effect cannot happen.
Necessary Condition
This is the way one would act if reason was fully in charge of his/her actions
Ethical Maxims
Argues that knowledge is created by taking experience and adding it to previously known concepts
Kant
Identify and solve the following argument:
My father is very mad at me for coming home late last night. As we all know, mad people should be locked up in an asylum, so my father should be sent to an asylum.
Inductive - Weak - Reject because of problematic premise or slippery slope
Alan Turing would argue that a computer is a person if it convinces a human that it is so.
This theory looks to debunk Turing's thinking on the matter.
The Chinese Room Thought Experiment
Which philosopher defined a person as follows, “a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection”?
Locke
The beliefs that one universally acceptable moral code determines the rightness and wrongness of actions, regardless of consequences.
Ethical Absolutists
Convinced that human beings (including their minds) were entirely material.
Thomas Hobbes