PHIL 201 Quiz 5 Reality, Freedom and Personhood solutions complete answers

PHIL 201 Quiz 5 Reality, Freedom and Personhood solutions complete answers 

 

If compatibilism is true, the condition UR (ultimate responsibility) must be denied.

 

Which of the following views thinks incompatibilism is true, determinism is false, and there is genuine freedom?

 

Hylomorphism is sometimes regarded as a version of dualism and sometimes regarded as a version of materialism.

 

Lynne Rudder Baker argues that humans possess which TWO distinct qualities that that other nonperson animals do not?

 

According to determinism:

 

It is impossible to be a Christian and believe in Idealism.

 

Which of the following are versions of monism:

 

According to L. R. Baker, what are the two distinct qualities of humans which nonperson animals do not possess?  

 

Which of the following sub-disciplines of philosophy studies the nature and structure of reality?

 

According to Platonism, in the sentence "Socrates is wise" the phrase "is wise" refer to:

 

(As a Christian, it doesn't matter what one thinks about the nature of reality.

 

Science necessarily entails the truth of materialism.

 

Which feature of our mental life seems to be at odds with materialism? 

 

The soft determinist thinks there is freedom yet we are determined.

 

The Molinist endorses all but which one of the following claims? 

 

The compatibilist about freedom thinks that:

 

The open theist endorses all but which one of the following claims?

 

First-person perspective is the ability of someone to desire, intend, or plan.

 

Plato and Descartes are two famous defenders of what view in the philosophy of mind?

 

John Locke adopted the view of persons known as “psychological continuity” which is the view that:

 

The Indispensibility Argument is an argument in favor of which of the following views?

 

According to Alvin Plantinga, evolution ensures that we can trust our cognitive faculties to produce true beliefs.

 

Which of the following are versions of dualism:

 

Two plausible conditions for genuine freedom are:

 

Frankfurt-style counter-examples, if true, show that:

 

If minds are only “entities that facilitate rational processes and process intelligent functions” then computers could be considered minds.

 

This view suggests that the best way to handle mental properties and mental states is simply to deny them altogether.

 

Nancy Murphy, one of the leading contemporary proponents of non-reductive physicalism, notes that she and other NRPs deny the existence of non-material entities, but do not deny the existence of:

 

One worry associated with Christian versions of idealism is that it is panentheistic.

 

The battle over the nature of reality is a recent battle only.

 

(As a Christian, it doesn't matter what one thinks about the nature of reality.

 

The nominalist about abstract objects believes that abstract objects exist.

 

According to Berkeleyan Idealism:

 

David Hume argued that humans are a composite of a material body and an immaterial soul.

 

(T/F) Acccording to the fictionalists about abstract objects, "2+2=4" is meaningful, but not literally true.

 

According to the idealist:

 

Which of the following is not true of materialism:

 

According to the doctrine of divine middle knowledge:

 

Which of the following views thinks incompatibilism is true, is unsure whether determinism is true or false, yet either way, denies the reality of genuine freedom?

 

The Consequence Argument is an argument advanced to show:

 

A compatibilist who thinks AP (alternative possibilities) is true can offer the following conditional analysis:

 

Which of the following is not a necessary condition for libertarian freedom, as discussed in the chapter?

 

A datum of human experience is that we seem to be free.

 

If God exists and is the first cause of the physical universe, then agent causation is one of the most basic facts about reality.

 

Agent causation in a plausible "extra factor" added to the account of libertarian freedom in order to make sense of how actions can be free and non-arbitrary.

 

Which is NOT listed as a strength of the substance dualist view, according to the authors?

 

Substance dualism has been widely held throughout most of philosophical history. (144)

 

Which important features of Nancy Murphy’s view/description do the authors note as worthy of comment?

 

Which view is non-committal about the ‘number of substances’ question?

 

Identity theory makes which claim about persons/minds/bodies?

 

Constitutionalism says that souls constitute persons.

 

Referencing the discussion on Aristotelian substance from chapter 4, the authors note that all of the above are true of substances EXCEPT:

 

Functionalism defines minds as those entities capable of: