I am including a Dropbox link for anyone that would like to print this.
EXTRA CREDIT: Prepare
two good paragraphs in response to the DQ of your choice, OR to this one: What
practical difference would it make in your life, if you came to believe that
free will, matter, or some other common-sensically accepted component of
reality was illusory?
Life in a state of nature would be
_______, poor, nasty, brutish, and _____. LH 58
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What was Hobbes's metaphorical
image of the civilized state he thought people were driven by fear to prefer
to a state of nature? LH 59
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Hobbes was a _______, convinced
that all aspects of existence including thinking are ______ activities. LH 60
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The branch of philosophy concerned
with what we can know and how we can know it is called _________. P 103
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Like other skeptical arguments,
the Illusion argument challenges our everyday belief, or common-sense
______. P 105
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In a _____ dream, the dreamer
is aware that he or she is dreaming. P 107.
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Quiz March 17 (For
March 5)
Sarah Bakewell says 16th century
French philosopher Michel de Montaigne was following whose example, when he
retreated to his tower to write and reflect? PB 52
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What was Montaigne's "near
death experience," and what did it teach him? PB 53
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What did Montaigne learn from the
Epicureans? PB 54
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The view that we do not
perceive objects directly and immediately, but infer them as the causes of
our inner ideas or representations, is called representational _______. P 111
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Primary qualities, according to
John Locke, include size, shape, and movement. What kind of qualities are
color, smell, and taste? P 111
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When Samuel Johnson kicked a
stone and said "I refute it thus," what view (or whose) was he
trying to refute? P 116
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The view that physical objects are
just patterns of actual or possible sense experiences is called what? P 117
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Quiz March 19 (First
Six)
What state of mind, belief, or
knowledge was Descartes' Method of Doubt supposed to establish? OR, What
did Descartes seek that Pyrrho spurned? LH 63, 64
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Did Descartes claim to know (at
the outset of his "meditations") that he was not dreaming? LH 65
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What strange and
mythic specter did Gilbert Ryle compare to Descartes' dualism of mind
and body? ("The ____ in the ______.") LH 66
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Historically, scientific
observation and tests replaced "truth by ______" as exemplified by
Aristotle and the Church. P 121
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An argument whose conclusion must be
true if its premises are true is called _______. (inductive, deductive,
abductive) P125
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_______ is Karl Popper's view that
science and knowledge progress by conjecture and refutation rather than
proof, and that a theory which cannot in principle be falsified is
unscientific; Thomas Kuhn said science progresses by _______ shifts. P 131,
135
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Quiz March 19 (Second
Six)
Pascal thought if you gamble on
god and lose, "you lose ______." LH 72
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(T/F) By limiting his
"wager" to a choice between either Christian theism or
atheism, says Nigel, Pascal excludes too many other possible bets. LH 75
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Those who agree with Descartes
that mind and body, the mental and
physical, represent metaphysically distinct and separate
substances are called what? P 138
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What is the most serious
difficulty facing those who defend this view? P 141
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The view that everything has a
mind of some sort is called what? P 141
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Does Nigel think parallelism,
occasionalism, or epiphenomenalism are plausible? P 143
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Conscious experiences of how it
feels or what it is like, personally, to be in a particular state of mind are
called what? P146
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Spinoza's view, that God and
nature (or the universe) are the same thing, is called _______. LH 76
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Spinoza was a determinist, holding
that _____ is an illusion. LH 79
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Susan James says Spinoza's
"main claim" is that we're always striving to make ourselves more
____. PB 73
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Anglo-Austrian philosopher
________'s "family resemblance" view implies that there's no single
quality held in common by all art. P 159
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The view that something is art
just because it's exhibited in an art gallery fails to distinguish good art
from bad, according to one criticism of which theory? P 164
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The trouble with art forgeries is
their attempt to ______. P 174
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According to John Locke, all our
knowledge comes from _____; hence, the mind of a newborn is a ______. LH
82
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Locke
said _____ continuity establishes personal identity (bodily,
psychological); Thomas Reid said identity relies on ______ memories, not
total recall. LH 85-6
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Bishop George Berkeley was a
metaphysical idealist because he believed all that exist are____; he was an
immaterialist because he denied that ______ exists; he was an _______ because
he said all knowledge comes from experience. LH 88, 90
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Esse est percipi means what?
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According to Dunn, Locke ______
(supported, opposed, invented) religious toleration and the separation of
church and state? PB 85
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(T/F) Campbell disagrees with
Locke about the independent existence of secondary qualities like sound and
color. PB 95
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What English poet
declared that "whatever is, is right"? LH 93
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What German
philosopher, with his "Principle of Sufficient Reason," agreed with
the poet?
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What French
champion of free speech and religious toleration wrote a satirical novel/play
ridiculing the idea that everything is awesome? 94-5
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What 1755
catastrophe deeply influenced Voltaire's philosophy? 96
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What did Voltaire
mean by "cultivating our garden"? 97
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Was Voltaire an
atheist? 98
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I appreciate the effort, but really would rather you not make it easier for people to "study" by finding a Q-&-A... which will facilitate neither learning nor testing. "READ THE RELEVANT TEXTS" - please!
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Oops. I'll just leave a printable study guide instead so people can fill in their own answers.
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