PHIL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ad Hominem, Genetic Fallacy, Logical Reasoning
26 May 2020
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Procedural or dialectical fallacies (cont"d: metaphysical materialists believe that all that exists is material; there are no immaterial souls or spirits. If materialists are right, human beings are just a bunch of organic chemicals stuck together, a collection of physical particles. Materialism asks us to believe that we are just a collection of physical parts, and that is simply not plausible. Procedural or dialectical fallacies (cont"d: straw man, presumably materialists hold that all objects are materially constituted, and that some of these material bodies have minds. There is no reason to ascribe the view that all material bodies have minds, which is what the arguer does in the passage. So, ridiculing this idea does not really engage materialism. Procedural or dialectical fallacies (cont"d: ad hominem is often mistaken for mere insult. Therefore, global warming is a fib: saying bless you after someone sneezes originated from the belief that an evil spirit could enter you after you sneeze.
