Reference no: EM133448785
Dennett:
1. What does Dennett believe is the most important factor in locating a person's identity? How does his story illustrate this?
2. What would Locke say about Dennett's story utilizing his theory of identity? What would Hume say? Descartes?
Locke:
3. What is the cobbler and Prince story supposed to tell us?
4. What is a person? What are the two keys to self-identity?
5. How is the soul related to consciousness?
6. What is the functionalist theory of the mind?
7. What is The Turing Test?
8. What is Searle's Chinese Room supposed to prove?
Hume:
9. Why does Hume reject the idea of self-identity? What is an impression according to Hume?
10. Hume gives us reasons for WHY we call things the same, even if we have no justification for it.
11. What are they? What is consciousness for Hume?
12. What is the analogy between a Theater and the mind supposed to illustrate?
13. What does the split-brain case illustrate? Why is this a problem for a dualist(e.g. Descartes)
Descartes:
14. What is the primary objection against mind/body dualism?
15. What is skepticism? What are the limits of the imagination?
16. What kinds of knowledge does the dream argument not get rid of?
17. What is the one un-doubtable truth that Descartes finds?
18. Why does Descartes first believe that he is not his body?
19. What kinds of properties do souls have? What kinds of properties do bodies have?
20. What are the abilities of the mind/soul?
21. What is epiphenomenalism? What is Parallelism? What is Pre-established Harmony?
22. Explain what the wax example accomplishes. (its not just that our senses are unreliable)
23. What is an innate idea? Adventitious idea? Fictitious idea?
24. Explain what Descartes means when he says that everything comes from something that has more reality than it.
25. How does Descartes deal with error? What is a valid argument? What is a sound argument?
26. What is Descartes first proof of the existence of God?
27. What does Descartes mean that his ideas are never wrong?
28. How does Descartes argue for the existence of God via inseparability?
29. Why can we believe there is no evil genius? According to Descartes, what would happen to our bodies if we lost our soul? If Descartes is wrong about the existence of God, what can we know?
Parascandola:
30. What is an "intersexed" person?
31. What is the difference between Sex and Gender according to Parascandola?
32. How can what Parascandola says about being "male" or "female" apply to race?
33. What is a Hijra?
34. Explain the family resemblance theory of race.