Namesakes
The simplest explanation (or the one that posits fewest entities) is likelier to be true
What is Occam’s razor
A formula that is true regardless of the interpretation of its component terms
What is tautology
This professor has taught a dance class
Dr Tennant
I think, therefore I am.
Who is Descartes?
A paradox in which arguments with seemingly true premises and valid reasoning nonetheless lead to false conclusions.
What is a Sorites Paradox?
Are good actions good because the gods love them, or do the gods love them because they are good?
What is the Euthyphro dilemma
A logical connective between statements where both imply each other
This “On Bullshit” author taught at OSU 1956-62.
Who is Harry G Frankfurt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The metaphysical position that claims free will can exist in a deterministic world
What is compatibilism?
Problem challenging the “justified true belief” account of knowledge
What is the Gettier problem
Name this fallacy:
P —> Q
Q
∴ P
What is affirming the consequent
This professor weightlifts competitively.
Who is Dr Smithies
What is it like to be a bat?
Who is Thomas Nagel?
The topic of the first meeting this year
What is AI Ethics?
Arguments challenging concepts of space and time (ex. A runner can never finish a race because they first must travel half the distance, then half what remains, and so on)
Zeno’s paradox
Identify the argument form:
If P, then Q
If Q, then R
Therefore, if P, then R
What is a hypothetical syllogism
Name the people who are married in the department
(1) Who are Tristram McPherson and Amy Shuster?
(2) Who are Lisa Downing and Abe Roth?
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Who is Heidegger?
Discredited theory of evolution positing the inheritance of acquired traits and a drive towards perfection
What is Lamarckism
All statements are either analytic a priori or synthetic a posteriori
What is Hume’s fork
This principle states that there is no algorithm to determine which formulas of first-order logic are valid
What is Church’s theorem (Church-Turing thesis)
Annie Siebert was the first person at OSU to get this degree - in philosophy
What is Master of Arts
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better of even their blunders.
Who is Nietzsche?
The claim that perceptual experience is able to determine the “hotdogness” of an object.
What is Hotdog Perceptualism?