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TA Q&A Sessions
• Tomorrow/Tuesday, February 26th:
• 5:30-7pm – Randolph 120 (Ryan & Curtis)
• 7-8:30pm – Randolph 120 (David & Ashley)
• Anyone can go to either session.
• Come with questions.
• Don’t expect a lecture.
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Test Format• Several short-answer questions, which can be
answered in a few words or a few sentences, with some choice, from readings and lecture.
• A couple of essays, which can be answered in a few paragraphs to a few pages, no choice, from topics discussed in lectures.
• Bring your own paper (not Blue Books). You cannot use books or notes.
• Use the test as an opportunity to show us how much you know about the material!
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Review for First Mid-term• The Meno• Socrates• Plato• Sophists• Good Definition• Counter-example• Dogmatism• Meno’s Paradox• Theory of Recollection
• Leading questions• Socratic Method of
teaching• A Priori Knowledge• A Posteriori Knowledge• Figure it out for yourself• Argument• Sound, Valid
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Review for First Mid-term• Meditations• Descartes• Architectural
metaphor• Absolute certainty• 4 methods of doubt• “Cogito, ergo sum.”• Thinking thing• Evaluate arguments• Subjective, objective
• Thoughts without a thinker
• Lichtenberg• Bundle theory of the self• Hume• First Proof of God• Adequacy Hypothesis• Formal Reality• Objective Reality
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Review for First Mid-term• Great Chain of being• Freud• Generating idea of God• Divine Epistemological
Certifier• Clear and distinct ideas• Second Proof of God
(Ontological Argument)• St. Anselm• Perfections
• Existence as a quality• Kant• Problem of Evil • Cartesian Circle• Dualism• Monism• Physicalism-Materialism• Corporeal things• Descartes’ arguments for
dualism
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Review for First Mid-term• Interaction• Pineal gland• Leibniz• Psycho-physical
parallelism• Nagel• Egocentric predicament• Skepticism • Solipsism• Problem of other minds
• Dual Aspect Theory• Arguments for Materialism• Principle of Simplicity• Ockham’s razor• 2 Arguments for Dualism• Leibniz’s Law• Principle of the
conservation of energy• Scientific attitude• Problem of Consciousness
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Positions on Mind-Body
CartesianInteractionism
PsychophysicalParalle lism
DualismM ind / Body
Dual-Aspect Scientific
M aterialismOnly M atter
IdealismOnly M ind
M onismM ind = Body
Nature of Reality
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Review for First Mid-term• Describe Descartes’
first (or second) proof for God’s existence. Is it successful? Why, or why not?
• Describe the Theory of Recollection in the Meno. What is it supposed to explain? Is it successful? Why, or why not?