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Name That Philosopher
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100
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Who is Socrates
100
Epistemology
What is the study/theory of Knowledge
100
The observation of self-awareness/existence, thinking, recollection of past thoughts, independent of other thinking things; the culmination of physical phenomemon, a product of the physical brain, or something more than/beyond the physical brain.
What is Consciousness
100

God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; yet, evil exists

What is the Problem of Evil

100

Never accept anything as true which I do not clearly know to be; divide all difficulties into as many parts as possible; conduct thoughts in such an order by dealing with objects that are simplest and working your way to more complex objects; and make complete enumerations and general reviews to guarantee nothing is omitted.

What are Descartes 4 "rules" to distinguish truth from error

200
Argued that justified true belief is insufficient for knowledge
Who is Edmund Gettier
200
Where consequences and other important components like intentions, duties, and virtues matter.
What is Non-Consequentialist Theories
200
True or false propositions that support a belief
What is Justification
200

Are right actions right because God commands them or are right actions commanded by God because they're right?

What is the Euthyphro Dilemma for the Divine Command Theory

200
Argument from Motion, Nature of Efficient Cause (something that causes change; 'first mover'), Possibility & Necessity, Gradation to be found in things, and Governance of the World
What is arguments for the Existence of God
300

Claims that there are 3 possible sources of knowledge, of which intuition is the direct realization of its object. 

Who is Radhakrishnan

300

The theory that people are sometimes, but not always, self-determining beings (i.e. sometimes the cause of their own behavior)

What is the Compatibilism or Soft Determinism

300
All events are destined to occur no matter what we do--guaranteed by foreknowledge of the divine/God/gods
What is Fatalism
300

The relationship of the mind to the physical (material) body

What is the Mind-Body Problem

300
Actual, in the moment, experience or sensations
What are Humean Impressions
400
"But fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."
Who is Nagel in "What it is like to be a bat"
400
Dennett's view that the "subjective movie" of consciousness is an illusion
What is Theory of Reductionism
400
Relationship between parts and the whole
What is (material) Composition
400

Who am I; what is this; does anything persist?

What is the Problem of Identity

400

"Kids make nutritious snacks!", "Grandmother of 8 makes hole in one", and "Drunk gets nine months in violin case"

What are examples of Syntactic Ambiguity

500

Claims there is an importance of moral obligation to people who are dependent and rejects universal and abstract theories.

Who is Held in "The Ethics of Care"

500

Beliefs that work practically are better than finding true beliefs.

What is Pragmatism, argued by Pascal

500

Factual content expressed by a declarative sentence--statement of fact (can be either true or false)--it is a statement with a truth value. 

What is a Proposition

500

If you doubt, your confidence decreases, and therefore you lose knowledge!

What is Cassam's Loss/Removal of Knowledge

500

The logic of the decision involved in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

What is the logic of The Trolley Problem