PHIL 1000 : Final Review
Document Summary
Anything covered in required readings or introduced during lecture is fair game on the exam. What follows is merely a selective guide to help you study. Logic and critical thinking: definitions of key concepts (argument, fallacy, law of non-contradiction, self-defeating claims/theories. Informal fallacies from the chewbacca defense article: truthiness, relativism. Skepticism, complete epistemological skepticism: the matrix and the brain in a vat scenario, hallucination argument. Searle"s chinese room argument against functionalism: hard determinism, d"holbach"s case against free will. Soft determinism, stace"s internal/external distinction: criticisms of stace"s soft determinism/compatibalism, libertarianism, chisholm"s agent/event causation distinction. Simple ethical subjectivism, ayer"s emotivism, criticism of the ses big constructive dilemma: meta-ethics, the shape of things and moral realist vs. anti-realist debate, ethical objectivism and ethical subjectivism, the matrix reloaded and causality. argument. Free will /determinism: moral relativism, criticism, divine command theory, euthyphro objection, ethically significant truths of reason.
