Quizbowl Philosophical Concepts I

Why does God allow suffering?

Evil

Sufficient reason resolves

Evil

“Best possible world”

Evil

Lack of goodness

Evil

Deer caught in a forest fire

Evil

Plantinga's Free Will Defense

Evil

"Is he willing...but not able? Then he is impotent."

Evil

"The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect"

Trolley

Frances Kamm “Mysteries of ___”

Trolley

compared to a judge who "frames an innocent person"

Trolley

4 arguments in “Phaedo”

Soul

Pineal gland

Soul

"nutritive" and "perceptual" faculties

Soul

One of Plontius’s three basic principles

Soul

"Floating Man" thought experiment

oul

Simmias of Thebes compares to a tune played on a harp

Soul

Ability to make decisions

Free will

St. Augustine believed that sin encumbers

Free will

Ethically convenient despite lack of evidence

Free will

Phenomenon lacked, but noumenon had

Free will

Not mutually exclusive w/ determinism by Compatibilism

Free will

Metaphysical libertarianism

Free will

William James had 2 stage model of

Free will

Because rationality trumps natural instinct

Free will

“Daniel Dennett's Elbow Room”

Free will

Libet's experiments on the Bereitschaft potential

Free will

Ideal city is analogy for

Justice

John Rawls book named for

Justice

“veil of ignorance”

Justice

undesirable according to Thrasymachus’s second objection

Justice

De Morgan’s Law

Truth

“the expedient in our ways of thinking”

Truth

“consensus” form

Truth

The “end of inquiry”

Truth

will to power as the only basis

Truth

Alfred Tarski

Truth

Attracted and separated elements w/ Strife

Love

Counterpart logos

Love

Competing “union” and “robust concern” views

Love

Realist “balance of __”

Power

“Soft” form

Power

“Bound to Lead”

Power

namesake “Mobility”

Power

“Ending due to triumph of democracy”

History

Edward Gibbon

History

Stephen Ambrose

History

David McCullough

History

Thomas Carlyle

History

Francis Fukuyama

History

Precedes owl of Minerva

History

Weltgeist advances this worldwide

History

“Copernican Revolution”

Science

Novum Organum

Science

Kuhn's model of "paradigm shifts"

Science

gestalt shifts

Science

model w/ a "hard core" and "protective belt"

Science

"problem of demarcation”

Science

Duckrabbit

Science

Duhem-Quine problem

Science

Regularity analysis

Causes

material, formal, efficient, and final forms by Aristotle

Causes

“first efficient __”

Causes

Zeno of Elea names

Paradoxes

Averroes’ stone

Paradoxes

Antinomies

Paradoxes

“Veridical” type

Paradoxes

“Falsidical” type

Paradoxes

Teapot orbiting between Earth and Mars

God

Gaunilo’s “Lost Island” refutation

God

ontological argument

God

Central to Utilitarianism

Happiness

Eudaimonia

Happiness

Virtue required to reach

Happiness

Possible regardless of fortune

Happiness

desire theory

Happiness

Karl Popper article

Dialectics

“Culture industry”

Dialectics

Johann Fickte

Dialectics

Namesake “materialism”

Dialectics

"growing block”

Time

Henri Bergson pairs with free will

Time

McTaggart paper

Time

A/B-series concepts

Time

In reference to Eichmann’s trial

Evil

Hannah Arendt

Evil

event vs. agent causation

Free will

Vico theorized was “cyclic”

History

“World Spirit”

History

Boeing 747 Gambit

God

"true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy"

Death

Xanthippe cries in anticipation of

Death

“beetle in a box”

Language

“family resemblance”

Language

Namesake “games”

Language

Heidegger defined as an “abyss”

Language

Positivism

Law

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

Law

Defined by stronger party

Justice

“Definite descriptors”

Language

“rigid designators”

Language