What the argument form
If P then Q
~Q
Therefore, ~P
is called.
What is modus tollens?
100
The argument by which one attempts to demonstrate the existence of God from the very concept of God.
What is the Ontological Argument?
100
This 17th century philosopher discovered calculus.
Who is G. W. Leibniz?
100
This student thought there was a connection between Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Descartes's Evil Demon Hypothesis.
Who is Abigail?
100
The thesis held by Descartes that the mind as an immaterial substance can causally affect physical bodies and physical bodies can causally affect immaterial minds.
What is interactionism?
200
The type of logic that can capture the validity of the following argument:
All dogs are delicious tasting.
Clifford is a dog.
Therefore, Clifford is delicious tasting.
What is predicate logic?
200
The logical fallacy committed when you reason as follows:
Philosopher X has criticized by position because it suffers from Y, but his position suffers from Y as well.
What is a tu quoque fallacy?
200
This 20th century philosopher wrote the influential work "Animal Liberation."
Who is Peter Singer?
200
This student first proposed the view that knowledge involves some sort of awareness?
Who is Rachel B.?
200
The part of the brain Descartes thought was the locus of mind-body interaction.
What is the pineal gland?
300
Propositions that are used to support a conclusion.
What is predicate logic?
300
The fallacy committed when one reasons as follows:
The parts of this automobile all weight less than 1,000 pounds, so this automobile must weigh less than 1,000 pounds.
What is the fallacy of composition?
300
This 17th century woman philosopher was one of the first materialists.
Who is Margaret Cavendish?
300
This student first proposed that Leibniz's Law does not apply to the type of properties that Descartes invokes in his Meditation 2 argument for substance dualism.
Who is Thomas?
300
The names of the two arguments Descartes uses in order to argue for substance dualism in Meditations 2.
What are the Evil Demon Hypothesis and the Cogito?
400
The type of inductive argument that takes the form:
This X is Y.
This X is Y.
This X is Y.
etc.
Therefore, all X's are Y's.
What is enumerative induction?
400
A truth table containing five simple statements will have this many rows.
What is 32?
400
This late 19th, early 20th century philosopher did a significant amount of important work on abduction.
Who is Charles Sanders Pierce?
400
This student wondered whether Descartes was going around cutting up people's brains, performing autopsies, in order to determine the locus of causal interaction between the mind and the body?
Who is Emily?
400
The name of the type of properties that Descartes invokes in his second meditation argument for substance dualism.
What are converse intentional properties?
500
The three types of expressions we discussed in class that are commonly thought to not be truth evaluative.
What are interrogatives (questions), imperatives (commands), and interjections (exclamations)?
500
This is the particular area of metaphysics in which Dillon has the majority of his work as a philosopher.
What is personal identity?
500
This philosopher authored Philosophical Explanations and claimed that philosophy is a discipline that employs war-like terminology
Who is Robert Nozick?
500
This student first claimed that from the Cogito, Descartes is not entitled to infer that there is a substantial, unified 'I' who does the thinking.
Who is Elena?
500
The thesis embraced by Descartes that necessarily if a given mental state occurs, then the person who has the mental state is aware of it.