PHI 2010 Topics for the Midterm

CH1
Necessary and sufficient conditions
1.2 Argument, premise, conclusion
Deductive arguments: validity, etc.
Inductive arguments: strong, cogent, etc.
Analogical Induction
Hypothetical InductionCriteria of Adequacy
Fallacies:Begging the Question; False Dilemma; Appeal to the Person; Appeal to Authority; Appeal to Ignorance; Appeal to Fear
1.3 Thought Experiment and counterexample

CH 7
Knowledge by acquaintance; performative knowledge; propositional knowledge; a priori, a posteriori;Theories of Truth: Correspondence, Pragmatic Theory, Coherence
7.3 Internal Theory of Knowledge: Knowledge by Justification C/E “Triff’s Dr. Appointment”Causal Theory of Knowledge. C/E “The Demented Mrs. Grabbit”Defeasibility Theory. C/E “Goldman’s Fake Barns”Reliability TheoryExplanationist Theory

CH 2
2.2 Logical Behaviorism; C/E “Perfect Pretender”QualiaIdentity Theory; C/E “Nagel’s Bat”
2.3Functionalism; C/E Putnam’s “Inverted Spectrum”
Turing test for computer intelligence
Intentionality
2.5 Property Dualism
Emergent Property
Downward Causation

CH 3
3.1 Hard determinism; C/E common sense, the idea of responsibility and accountability
Soft determinism
Traditional Compatibilism C/E Locke’s trapped conversationalist; Taylor’s ingenious physiologist; Taylor’s drug addiction
Harry Frankfurt’s Hierarchical compatibilism (first, second order desires and second order volitions) C/E Willing Bank Teller
3.3 Libertarianism
Agent causation and event causation