1. What’s Logical Behaviorism’s premise? Bring the “Perfect Pretender” counter to it and explain why it invalidates Behaviorism’s premise.
2. Is Identity Theory a better theory than Logical Behaviorism? Explain your answer.
3. Do you need brains to think? Explain the answer from Functionalism’s perspective.
4. What does it mean to say that the mind is an emergent property of the brain?
5. Suppose Harvey Weinstein invites an aspiring female actress to his apartment and asks her to have sex with him. Does the Hard Determinist believe Weinstein to be responsible for his actions? Is she?
6. Suppose the same scenario as in #5, but now you’re a Libertarian. Is Weinstein responsible for his actions? Is she?
7. What’s the principle of alternate possibilities? Explain it in the case of being 5 minutes late for your Phi 2010 class because of having coffee at McDonald’s
8. What’s the difference between Hard Determinists and Compatibilists?
9. What’s the Libertarian argument from experience?
(a minimum 40 word per question is required).
send the answers to me via email, with this in the subject:
Doe, John, Phi 2010 (day) (time), Midterm Exam, Salzburg.
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