Exam 3 (philosophy)

Question 1

Sartres’ characterization of a persons refusal to accept him/herself…

Answer 1

Bad Faith

Question 2

those people who continue to argue that mental events and physical events are wholly separate…

Answer 2

Dualists

Question 3

Sartres term for the totality of facts that are true of a person at any given time..

Answer 3

Facticity

Question 4

What is most essential to individual human existence in Christianity, that aspect of the person that survives death

Answer 4

soul

Question 5

The problem that seems to follow from the view that we know only our own minds directly

Answer 5

egocentric predicament

Question 6

The characteristics that make a person that particular person

Answer 6

Essential self

Question 7

The theory that mental events are identical to certain processes in the brain

Answer 7

functionalism

Question 8

the view that we can know only of the existence of our own minds

Answer 8

solipism

Question 9

similarity, comparison

Answer 9

analogy

Question 10

The way you characterize yourself…

Answer 10

self-identity

Question 11

in the existentialism, the genuine, individual self identity to be distinguished from the inauthentic merely role playing the public identity.

Answer 11

authentic self

Question 12

Going against the rules of reason

Answer 12

irrational

Question 13

The thesis that there are no mental events…

Answer 13

behaviorism

Question 14

the belief that every event has its cause (or causes)

Answer 14

principle of universal causality

Question 15

Freedom from all constraints (which is impossible)

Answer 15

absolute freedom

Question 16

The application of our rationality to practical problems…

Answer 16

practical reason

Question 17

The freedom to utilize one’s potential

Answer 17

positive freedom

Question 18

determinism uncompromised, unqualified.

Answer 18

Hard determinism

Question 19

the thesis that both determinism.. and free action can be true

Answer 19

compatibilism

Question 20

the thesis that at least some events in the universe are not determined

Answer 20

indeterminism

Question 21

the belief that a person is capable of making decisions that are not determined by antecedent conditions

Answer 21

free will

Question 22

the view that every event in the universe is dependent upon other events that are its causes.

Answer 22

determinism

Question 23

the freedom from constraints

Answer 23

negative freedom

Question 24

the thesis that accepts determinism… A persons character will allow us to call his/her actions “free”

Answer 24

soft determinism

Question 25

The thesis that mental events and physical events are the same…

Answer 25

identity theory