Exam 4: Minds, Bodies, and Persons

For Searle, we need to use different senses of understanding, and so while computer programs can be said to understand in a certain sense, they don't understand in the strong sense that humans do.

Watson advocates a Platonic conception of practical reasoning.

What is Quine's "dogma," to which Churchland refers?

Why does the Jones₄/Black case work against the principle of alternate possibilities?

Fischer argues that freedom to do otherwise is compatible with determinism and God's foreknowledge.

How does Hume define "necessity"?

Why might Jones₃ not work as a counterexample to the principle of alternate possibilities?

Which of the following central aspects of free will does not appear in the Zhuangzi?

Hume holds that the whole controversy concerning liberty and necessity turns on . . .

What does Miler mean by a "person-stage"?

Which of the following best describes a Frankfurt-type case?

Watson thinks Frankfurt's account of freedom of will is problematic.

Which of the following best defines "qualia"?

According to Derek Parfit, if we give up the notion that we're enduring selves, then . . .

Which of the following best describes the "deterministic view" of human action?

Why is it important to respect people's autonomy, according to Jaworska?

According to Frankfurt, what distinguishes persons from animals?

On the Platonic model of practical reasoning . . .

Buddhists deny that we have enduring selves.

In contrast to thinkers like Kant, the Zhuangzi encourages us to