PHI 2010 Website (Final review)

Use this site to review. It contains flashcards, quizzes and other useful material. Click on the chapter and respective section.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072878274/student_view0/

Matrix of Topics for PHI 2010 Final Exam

Chapter 4

Personal Identity
1. Qualitative Identity, numerical identity, accidental and essential property; Animalism
a) Locke’s Tale of the Prince and the Cobbler
b) Siamese Twins
2. Soul Theory
a) The King of China
b) Nestor and Tersites
c) Transubstantiation
d) Souls in Heaven
3. Memory Theory
a) Reid’s Tale of the Brave Officer
b) Direct and indirect memories
c) Real memory, apparent memory, quasi-memory
4. Psychological Continuity
a) Psychological connectedness
b) Psychological Continuity Theory
5. The Reduplication Problem
a) William’s Reincarnation of Guy Fawkes
b) Williams’ Reduplication Argument
c) Parfit Teletransporter
6. Revised Body Theory
7. Split Brains: Brain Theory
a) Parfit’s Division
8. Identity and what matters in survival
9. Identity and what matters in responsibility
10. Explaining the Self

Chapter 5 Ethics

1. Subjective Absolutism; Counterarguments
2. Subjective Relativism; Counterarguments
3. Emotivism; Blanshard’s Rabbit
4. Cultural relativism; Counterarguments
5. Anthropological Argument
6. Logical Structure of Moral Arguments
7. Divine Command Theory; St. Thomas’ argument
8. Are there universal moral principles?
9. Principles of justice and mercy
10. Consequentialist Theory; Formalist Theory
11. Intrinsic and Instrumental Values
12. Ethical egoism
13. Psychological Hedonism; Feinberg’s Single-Minded Hedonist
14. Act Utilitarianism
a) Mc Closkey’s informant
b) Brandt’s Heir
c) Ross’ Diplomat
d) Godwin’s Fire Rescue
e) Ewing’s Torture
f) Ewing’s Innocent Criminal
15. Rule Utilitarianism; Organ Transplants
16. Kant’s Categorical Imperative
17. Universalizability, reversibility
18. Perfect and imperfect duties
a) Hare’s Nazi fanatic
b) Ross’ Good Samaritan
19. Second Formulation
a) Broad’s Typhoid Man
b) Ewing’s Prudent Diplomat
20. Ross’ Prima Facie Duties; actual duties. You most know hierarchy and each one of these duties
21. Pluralistic formalism
22. Virtuous Utilitarian and virtuous Kantian
23. Aristotle on virtue; MacIntyre on virtue
24. Virtue Ethics

PHI 2604 Moral Issues in Business (Website)

Please, use this Website as an additional source for questions and concepts for the FINAL EXAM:

http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&discipline_number=5&product_isbn_issn=0534536549

At the top of the page, you have a bar with a scroll down menu for choosing chapters. Then on your left hand side you have a menu with Chapter Resources. Click on Tutorial Quiz. Good luck!

Schedule of Final Exams for All my PHI classes:

PHI 2010 meeting M,W,F, 10-10:50am: Wednesday, April 26th at 10am.

PHI 2010 meeting M,W,F, 11-11:50am: Friday, April 28th at 10am.

PHI 2010 meeting T,R, 9:50am-11:05am: Tuesday, April 25th at 9:50am.

PHI 2010 meeting T, 5:40pm-8:10pm: Tuesday, April 25th at 5:40pm.

PHI 2604 meeting W, 6:30pm: Wednesday, April 26th at 6:30pm.

PHI 2604 Homework Chapter 10

Thanks, Mary Ann!

1- Why is product safety important?
2- Explain the following terms:
a)“Due care”
b) “Caveat Emptor”
c) Strict Product Liability
3- What’s “legal paternalism”?
4- Go over the 6-point list stated as “Responsibilities of Business” on page 513.
5- As it pertain to product quality, go over the different warranties on page 516.
6- What’s “price fixing”?
7- Under “deception and unfairness in advertising, comment the following:
a) Ambiguity
b) Concealed facts
c) Exxageration
d) Psychological appeals