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    Aspects of Western Philosophy

    CBS1CN36
    Reading Guide

    1. Where Did the Universe Come From?


     Cause argument
     Cosmological argument
     Hume’s critique of the cause argument

    2. What's Wrong with Gay Sex?


     Problems with appeal to nature
     Moral positions v. emotional reactions

    3. Brain-Snatched
     Brain in a vat scenario
     Skepticism about the external world
     Ordinary language argument against skepticism
     Invisible pebble argument against skepticism

    4. Is Time Travel Possible?


     Personal time v. External time
     Causal loops
     Changing the past

    5. Into the Lair of the Relativist


     Interesting relativism v. Boring relativism
     Plato’s objection
     Moral relativism and tolerance
     Conceptual relativism

    6. Could a Machine Think?


     Searle’s Chinese Room thought-experiment
     Neuron-replacement

    7. Does God Exist?


     Teleological argument
     Naturalism
     Anthropic argument and Lottery fallacy
     Problem of Evil
     Free will defense
     Ockham’s razor
     Religious experience

    8. The Strange Case of the Rational Dentist


     Argument from analogy and its problems
     Skepticism about other minds
     Logical behaviorism
     Philosophical zombies
    9. But Is It Art?
     Necessary and sufficient conditions
     Family Resemblances
     Institutional theory of art and its problems

    10. Can We Have Morality without God and Religion?


     Euthyphro problem
     Religion and Moral Knowledge

    11. Is Creationism Scientific?


     Creationism
     Falsificationism
     Ad Hoc arguments

    12. Designer Babies


     Eugenics
     Class-divide
     Immortality

    13 The Consciousness Conundrum


     Substance dualism v. Property dualism
     Mary’s Room thought experiment

    14. Why Expect the Sun to Rise Tomorrow?


     Inductive reasoning v. Deductive reasoning
     Hume’s criticism

    15. Do We Ever Deserve to Be Punished?


     Hard determinism
     Moral responsibility
     Compatibilism
     Libertarianism

    16. The Meaning Mystery


     Locke’s theory of meaning
     Wittgenstein on meaning and use

    17. Killing Mary to Save Jodie


     Utilitarianism
     Rule utilitarianism

    18. The Strange Realm of Numbers


     Conventionalism
     Mathematical facts
     A priori knowledge
     Rationalism v. Empiricism

    19. What is Knowledge?


     Plato’s theory of knowledge
     The regress problem
     The Gettier problem
     The casual theory of knowledge

    20. Is Morality like a Pair of Spectacles?


     Moral realism
     Subjectivism
     Intersubjectivism
     Emotivism

    21. Should You Be Eating That?


     Morally relevant differences
     Morality of Eating Non-Human Animals

    22. Brain Transplants, 'Teleportation' and the Puzzle of Personal Identity


     Animal theory
     Brain theory
     Stream theory
     Qualitative identity v. Numerical identity

    23. Miracles and the Supernatural


     Clever Hans
     Hume’s criticism of miracles
     Miracles and proof for the existence of God

    24. How to Spot Eight Everyday Reasoning Errors


     The Post Hoc fallacy
     Argument from Authority fallacy
     Slippery Slope fallacy
     False Dilemma fallacy
     Gambler’s fallacy
     Begging the Question fallacy
     Affirming the Consequent fallacy

    25. Seven Paradoxes


     Liar’s paradox
     Sorites paradox

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