week 2 discussion board

Please read the guidelines for completing this assignment here: 

Guidelines for Q&A Discussion and Critical Comment Forums . 

For your Week Two Q&A Discussion and Critical Comments posts, you are asked to do the following:

1) Q&A: Compose and answer two original questions based on the Week Two required readings (other than Russell). Choose one author from each of the following groups of philosophers for each Q&A:

Group 1: Berkeley, Hume, or Kant

Group 2: Nagel, Jackson, or Searle

Please note that each Q&A post, including the question but not any citations, should be around 350-500 words, and posts with fewer than 250 words will not receive any credit. Also remember to proofread your work for stylistic, grammatical, and spelling errors before submission.

Each one of your two Q&A Discussion threads should be formatted as follows (remember...these are two separate threads):

First thread:

My first question is:  

My answer to this question is:

Second thread:

My second question is: 

My answer to this question is: 

REQUIRED READING

Russell, 

The Problems of Philosophy  : Chapters V-VIII [The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell: pp. 25-47]. The entire work can be found online here:  Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy .

· Berkeley, 

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous  , First and Second Dialogues, pp. 1-39.

· Hume, 

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding  , §2-7, pp. 7-39.

· Kant, 

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysic that Can Present Itself as a Science  , Preamble on the Special Features of All Metaphysical Knowledge and General Problems, pp. 7-16.

. Study Guide: Read this helpful overview of the main themes and ideas in Kant's philosophy from Encyclopedia Britannica's Philosophy Pages:

 Kant "Cheat Sheet."

· Nagel,“

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?  ” The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450.

. Read this short excerpt from Nagel's book, What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (1987):

Chapter 2  (3 pages).

· Jackson,“

Epiphenomenal Qualia  ,” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 127. (Apr., 1982), pp. 127-136.

. Study Guide: Kirk, Robert, "

Zombies  ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/zombies/>.  

· Searle,“

Minds, Brains, and Programs  ,” The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, (1980) 3, pp. 417-457. Main article: pp. 417-424.

For general research on any philosophical topic, theme, or major philosopher, here are two excellent online sources:

· Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

· Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy