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Descartes
"I think therefore I am" |
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1) proof that I exist by the fact that I'm questioning my own existence"
2) Mind as separate from matter or body |
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| soulless and unconscious but can somehow learn and work |
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| behaves like a human but physical system is nothing like our own |
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| behaves and functions like a human but no awareness or self-concept |
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| physically identical zombie |
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| human double with cells and blood, completely indistinguishable from a human but with no consciousness |
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feelings and experiences that very widely...
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smelling a skunk,
seeing bright purple
becoming extremely angry
..you cant deny these things are happening but you can't prove them because they are in the mind |
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if Mary knows everything about how the eye sees the color red but she is colorblind to the color red and has never experienced it for herself, does she really know anything about seeing the color red?
*mary has all the knowledge about how the eye sees red but if mary is colorblind to red, has she never EXPERIENCED it for herself does she really know anything about seeing red? |
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Cartesian Dualism
[[4 ontological position on consciousness]] |
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| conscious mind and physical brain are different but they interact. |
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Idealist Monist
[[4 ontological position on consciousness]] |
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| the brain itself is an impression from the mind of God put into our minds |
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material monist
[[4 ontological position on consciousness]] |
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| the brain and mind are synonymous (have a similar meaning) |
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mysterian
[[4 ontological position on consciousness]] |
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| consciousness is a mystery and we'll never understand it |
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synchronic
[[metaphysics of personhood]] |
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-happening in the moment
-all at once
-tested by consciousness and having human DNA |
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| diachronic [[metaphysics of personhood]] |
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-happening over a period of time/ unfolding of time
-tested by memory -if you cannot create memories you are not this person -& by body continuity, you are the same person in both points in time |
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| subject theory of (ethics) |
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| ethics are generated from particular subjects and groups |
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| objective theory of (ethics) |
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ethics are the same for all
--> no such thing |
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| what is good is what's good for me |
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cultural relativism
(ethics) |
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| cultural are morally infallible, universally ethical actions are not intelligible actions |
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universal divine command theory
(ethics) |
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| God makes morality, aren't based on goodness, they are moral because they come from God |
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| Kantian (deontological) (ethics) |
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based on duty -you should judge your acts according to whether or not society would benefit if everyone did the same
*don't look on consequences |
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the goal of moral is to increase maximum happiness for the most amounts of people;
there is no right or wrong act itself, only right or wrong behavior in a situation based on the principle to produce maximum happiness |
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| -Aristotel based ethical theory, to be ethical you must have lived an ethical life |
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| ethical action isn't just carrying out a duty, but doing it with the right attitude or emotion |
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| does have a moral conscience but choose to do the wrong thing |
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| rejects all forms of morality |
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| moral skepticism (ethics) |
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| it is impossible to determine just from unjust actions -impossible to tell right or wrong actions |
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| mimesis human creations (aesthetics) |
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| when human creation MIMics objects in nature |
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non-mimetic human creations
(aesthetics) |
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when they are trying to create something new, not copying something in nature
*abstract |
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| something we can only see when we see the whole thing |
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| being over whelmed with feelings; beyond and above humanity; doesn't have to be pleasurable |
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| ethical response in moral reasoning |
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| aesthetic response in moral reasoning |
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deductive argument
(logic) |
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| conclusion is logically entailed in the premises, it the premises are true then is it impossible for the conclusion to be false |
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Inductive argument
(logic) |
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| the conclusion probably can be inferred from the premises, but not necessarily so |
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sound deductive argument
(logic) |
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| VALID argument with a true premises |
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valid deductive argument
(logic) |
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| valid sequence of deductive operations from the premises to a true conclusion |
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| what the sentence is about |
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| tells something about the subject |
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one or more statements called premises which claim to provide evidence to support a conclusion
-claim said with out proof to be supported by the evidence |
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| evidence given to support a conclusion |
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| declarative sentence that can be either true or false |
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what kind of sentences can be the premises of an argument
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| due to, in that, since, because. |
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conclusion of an argument
(logic) |
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| the result that ostensibly flows from the premises |
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| the process of drawing a conclusion form premises |
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| no evidence to support a claim, no claim alleged to be supported by evidence |
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| how do you know that an action leads to a particular outcome? |
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A prior -> something that can be prior to experience or with out
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| a postererior -> something that is known or that can only be known by EXPERIENCE |
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