Wittgenstein 1
In On Certainty Wittgenstein makes a division between knowledge and certainty, they “belong to different categories.” This is a difference in kind not this.
What is degree?
According to evolutionary theory, we have two conflicting-yet deep-seated instincts within us: 1. Help others and 2. this?
What is self-preservation?
In Can Animals and Machines Be Persons? one of Goodman's first questions has to do with whether this is the same as a person.
What is a human being?
Theory that maintains mental states are identical with brain states.
What is Identity Theory (IT)?
The three main elements required in constructing a moral framework include general rules and principles; background beliefs and theories and this.
What are particular moral judgments?
Certainty, for Wittgenstein, is not a matter of propositional thought, but a matter of this.
What is embodied action?
Individuals who lose their capacity to integrate reason and emotion.
Who are "rational fools"?
The two aspects of personhood include whether an entity can think and this?
What is feel?
Long-term study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
What is the Nun Study?
Name of the philosopher who developed Narrow Reflective Equilibrium (NRE).
Who is John Rawls?
So much "turns" on these.
What are "hinge-propositions"?
“Mutual concessions for mutual gain” is the definition of this.
What is a "compromise"?
Humanico, says Goodman, is an example of this kind of person.
What is an artificial person?
A theory that maintains we must completely eliminate talk of the mental. Our language is outdated and outmoded; it needs to be revamped.
What is Eliminative Materialism (EM)?
“Philosophical, scientific, social scientific, and any other relevant beliefs that might figure into moral arguments” describes this element of WRE.
What are Background beliefs and theories?
Hinge-propositions are like these kind of propositions (hint: think G.E. Moore).
What are common sense propositions (aka Moore-type propositions)?
According to the President’s commission report, life requires at least three integrated functions among the heart, the lungs, and this.
What is the brain?
This mathematician/logician who developed a test for personhood.
Who is Alan Turing?
A Theory that holds: mental states depend not on internal constitution, but solely on function, or the role it plays in the cognitive system of which it is a part.
What is Functionalism?
The two elements that make up Narrow Reflective Equilibrium.
What are particular moral judgments; general rules and principles?
Anyone seriously entertaining a doubt about, say, the earth’s existence, Wittgenstein says we would not think that he had made a mistake, but that he was suffering from this.
What is a mental disturbance?
An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead.
What is the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA)?
If Washoe-Delta lives, senses, and feels then she has this.
What are intentional states?
In Philosophy & This Actual World, Martin Benjamin suggests this as an alternative to Cartesian Dualism, EM, and IT.
What is Pragmatic Physicalism?
Name of the book where John Rawls developed his theory.
What is A Theory of Justice?