Philosophy Exam 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 In the movie Memento, Teddy and Natalie keep calling Leonard Shelby what? | Lenny |
| In the movie Memento, Burt the motel clerk does what to Leonard because he knows he'll forget? | rents him a second room |
| In the movie Memento, Leonard has facts ________ all over his body to help him investigate his wife's murder. | tattooed |
| In the clip of Pulp Fiction we watched in class Jules and Vincent discuss whether or not the experienced a _______. | miracle |
| In the clip of Pulp Fiction we watched in class Jules claims that it would be a miracle if God changed ____ into Pepsi. | Coke |
| In the clip of Pulp Fiction we watched in class Vincent ______ that they witnessed a miracle. | denies |
| In the movie the Shawshank Redemption, Andy convinces Captain Hadley to buy _____ for all of the prisoners that are tarring the roof. | beer |
| In the movie the Shawshank Redemption, Andy uses a ____ hammer to escape. | rock |
| . In the movie the Shawshank Redemption, Andy hides a note and some money for Red _____ ________ _____. (Andy says it has no business being in a Maine hayfield.) | under obsidian rocks |
| One reading of Hume is that he is a _______. | skeptic |
| Hume argues that causation is utterly _________. | mysterious |
| List two of the five ways Hume gives to gauge the strength of testimony. | What is the character of the witnesses? and How many witnesses are there? |
| Hume describes a miracle as a ________ of the laws of nature. | violation |
| For Hume that uniform experience is a _____ against the existence of any miracle. | proof |
| One of the four arguments that Hume gives against miracles is that the miracles of each religion serve to _________ ____ ____. | discredit each other |
| Explain in your own words one of the three conclusions from the three famous quotes I gave in the Hume lecture. | Miracles cannot serve as a foundation to any religion. |
| What are the two versions of the problem of evil I gave in class.version. | Logical and Evidential |
| Explain in your own words one of the three things Rowe plans to accomplish in his paper on the problem of evil. | What position should the informed atheist take concerning the rationality of theistic belief? |
| In his paper Rowe uses atheist, theist, and agnostic in the ______ _____. | narrow sense |
| List two of the three preliminary claims that Rowe gives in his paper on the problem of evil. | Human and animal suffering occurs daily and is in abundance in our world and This suffering is a form of evil. |
| Rowe gives the example of ___ _________ _________ __ _ _______ ____ as an example to undermine a greater good theodicy. | The pointless suffering of a burning fawn |
| List the two types of theodicies I gave in class in the lecture on the problem of evil. | Character Building and Free Will |
| In the lecture on the problem of evil, I gave a distinction between two types of evil: | Natural Evil and Moral Evil. |
| Whately's argument is a ________ __ ________ argument against Hume's view. | reductio ad absurdum |
| Whately uses a history of _________ as a counterexample to Hume's view. | Napoleon |
| Whately attacks Hume's claim that our desire to hear or read _________ ______ causes us to believe anything. | marvelous things |
| Whately also sets up __________ as the media for the evidence of Napoleon. | newspapers |
| Whately gives three reasons for testing the credibility of witnesses. Please give one. | There are dramatic differences in the newspapers' accounts. |
| In the "funny quote" Whatley recounts how France allowed ________ to lose ____ armies. | Napolean, five |
| Whately thinks that Hume would ___ _______ the story of ________ if he found it in an ancient historical text. | not believe, Napoleon |
| What are two types of knowledge? _____________ ___ _______ | Propositional and Ability |
| Epistemology is the study of _________. | knowledge |
| What are the two basic requirements for knowledge? | Truth and Belief |
| Pritchard gives two examples to show that knowledge is better than true belief. Give both: | Lucky Lass and Skilled Archer |
| Epistemologists need an account of knowledge that comes from an agents true belief, but is not a matter of _____. | luck |
| Pritchard argues for _________ _____. | objective truth |
| That the earth is a ________ does not depend on whether you think it is true. | spheroid |
| A rightly held belief is _________. | justified |
| Give one of the three claims from Agrippa's Trilemma. | Our beliefs are unsupported |
| A Trilemma forces someone to choose from three ___________ options. | unpalatable |
| Pritchard claims that there are three answers to Agrippa's Trilemma. I claimed that there are actually ____. | four |
| List the names of two of the four answers to Agrippa's Trilemma. | Infinitism and Coherentism |
| List two of the seven theories of justification I described as "other forms of justification." | Internalism and Externalism |
| List one problem for one of the answers to Agrippa's Trilemma. Please list both the view and its problem. | Skepticism: counter-intuitive on the whole, the realm of knowledge is very small |
| Name the correct philosophers this view: Skepticism - _____ ____, _____ _______ | David Hume, Brian Ribiero |
| Name the correct philosophers this view: Foundationalism - ____ ________, __ _________ | Rene Descartes, Al Plantinga |
| Name the correct philosophers this view: Coherentism - _____, _____, _______ | Quine, Leher, BonJour |
| Name the correct philosophers this view: Infinitism - ____ ____, _____ _____ | Scott Akin, Peter Klein |
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