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PHIL week 5 study guide
Philosophy and Contemporary Ideas (Liberty
University)
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RLGN 104
Which of the following sub-
disciplines of philosophy studies
the nature and structure of
reality?
Metaphysics
According to Alvin Plantinga,
evolution ensures that we can
trust our cognitive faculties to
produce true beliefs.
False
According to Berkeleyan Idealism:
Finite spirits exist
Divine ideas exist
an Infinite spirit (God) exists
Which of the following are
versions of monism:
Idealism Materialism
David Hume argued that
humans are a composite of a
material body and an
immaterial soul.
False
The nominalist about abstract
objects believes that abstract
objects exist. False
One worry associated with
Christian versions of idealism is
that it is panentheistic.
True
According to Platonism, in the
sentence "Socrates is wise" the
phrase "is wise" refer to: An abstract object
According to the idealist: Tables, chairs, and trees do
exist as mind-dependent
realities.
The open theist endorses all
but which one of the following
claims?
God has exhaustive foreknowledge
of the future.
The compatibilist about freedom Determinism is true
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thinks that: Freedom is compatible
with determinism
Which of the following views
thinks incompatibilism is true,
determinism is false, and there is
genuine freedom?
Libertarianism
The soft determinist thinks
there is freedom yet we are
determined. True
Which of the following is not a
necessary condition for libertarian
freedom, as discussed in the
chapter? Compatibilism
If God exists and is the first cause
of the physical universe, then
agent causation is one of the
most basic facts about reality.
True
The Consequence Argument
is an argument advanced to
show:
The incompatibility
between determinism
and freedom
A compatibilist who thinks AP
(alternative possibilities) is true
can offer the following
conditional analysis: If I had wanted to do A, I would
have done A"
According to L. R. Baker, what are the two
distinct qualities of humans which nonperson
animals do not possess?
First-person perspective and intentional states
Referencing the discussion on
Aristotelian substance from
chapter 4, the authors note that
all of the above are true of
substances EXCEPT:
Substances are those things
which are necessarily physical
First-person perspective is the
ability
False
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of someone to desire, intend, or
plan.
Substance dualism has been
widely held throughout most of
philosophical history. (144)
True
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If minds are only “entities that
facilitate rational processes and
process intelligent functions”
then computers could be
considered minds.
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Plato and Descartes are two famous defenders
of what view in the philosophy of mind?
substance Dualism
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