Chapter 4-5 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Social Contract
An implicit agreement between members of society
Implicit
Understood but not stated directly
Group Property
Property that a group has a characteristic that an individual does not have
Liberty
Ability to make choices and act on them
Equal of Opportunity
Everyone has same opportunity no matter what
Equality of Condition
Everyone has same amount of wealth and material goods
Harm Principle
States that you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t harm anyone else
Paternalistic Law
Supposed to protect you from doing harm to yourself
Excused
Never responsible for anything we do
Judge
Responsible for something if you had intended or choose to cause it
Communism
System in which poverty is owned community than privately
Natural Lottery
Genetic distribution of natural talents and assets
Distributive Justice
Distribution of wealth
Retributive Justice
Concert of Law and Punishment
Free will
Ability to make free choices up to you
Determinism
View that every event has a prior cause including human choice
Introspection
Ability to look inward in your own mind
Infinite Regress
Series that goes back forever
Reduction
Scientific phenomena at one level is explained in basic terms
Oceans Razor
Simplest explanation is usually correct one
Problem of interaction
Non physical mind can interact with physical body
Principle of Conversation of Matter & Energy
Total matter and energy in a system remain constant
Artificial intelligence
Research program used to simulate intelligent behavior AI
Turning Test
Test of computer intelligence