Phil 1010 test two

Barbara Harris’s novel, Who is Julia?, is the story (fictional) of

a woman produced by surgically placing one woman’s brain into another woman’s body.

According to U.T. Place, which of the following would be an example of an identity statement that uses the "is" of definition?

A bachelor is an unmarried adult male. 

According to the Argument from Conceptual Independence, we know that the statement “consciousness is a brain process” is false because

the concepts of consciousness and brain processes are logically independent.

Which of the following individuals put forth the Problem of Interaction in a letter to Rene Descartes?

Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia

Which of the following is one of the points Curt Ducasse makes in response to the Argument from Dependence (that consciousness is dependent on the presence of a living, functioning body)?

Even the dualist would grant that the bodily manifestations of consciousness depend on the kind and state of the body to which the consciousness is joined.

Which of the following is one of the points that A.J. Ayer makes in criticizing libertarian accounts of freedom?

A libertarian choice is a chance or random event and it does not make sense to hold someone morally responsible for what is “merely a matter of chance”.

Who wrote the following?

“According to the principle, therefore, which denies necessity and, consequently, causes, a man is as pure and untainted, after having committed the most horrid crime, as at the first moment of his birth, nor is his character anywise concerned in his actions, since they are not derived from it; and the wickedness of the one can never be used as a proof of the depravity of the other.”

Hume

According to a compatibilist theory of freedom

one and the same action can be both free and fully causally determined.

Hard Determinism is the theory that

all human actions are fully causally determined; therefore, none are free.

Which of the following is not one of the claims made in the Moral Argument for Freedom?

It makes no sense to hold human beings morally responsible.

Descartes calls his method a method of doubt because

he resolves to accept as true only those beliefs he can find no reason to doubt.

If Descartes were ranking the idea of a flower, the idea of a dog and the idea of a human being with respect to their comparative degree of formal reality, which of the following would Descartes say?

All three ideas have the same degree of formal reality.

In the Second Meditation, Descartes concludes that the belief “I exist” must be true whenever he thinks it. The “I” whose existence he is sure of at this point in the Meditations is

a thinking thing.

Which of the following is not one of the factors that contributed to a revival of skepticism in early 17^th century France.

The publication of Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Which of the following is the reason that Descartes gives to doubt beliefs – like those of mathematics – understood through intellectual intuition?

There might be an all-powerful and evil being that uses its power to bring it about that we consistently make mistakes in our basic mathematical judgments.

What does Hume conclude is “the great guide of human life” and “is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past”?

Custom

Which of the following is an example used by Hume to illustrate the point that human beings can use their imaginations to combine ideas in ways that don’t correspond to anything existing in reality?

A golden mountain

Hume's "copy principle" states

all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones.

Which of the following is an example of what Hume would call a judgment expressing a relation of ideas?

A unicorn is a horse with a single horn in its head.

Which of the following propositions is such that its negation would not result in an internal contradiction?

All politicians are honest.