Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short answer and long answer. There will be 6-8 short answer questions of which you pick 4-5. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences. There will be 3-5 long answer questions, of which you pick 2. Answers should be about 2 blue-book pages, front and back. If you are taking the exam, you may either

(i) take an IN-CLASS exam on THURSDAY MAY 20th at 2:00pm-4:00pm in King 306, or

(ii) take a 24-Hour TAKE-HOME that will be distributed via email Friday, May 21 at 11am and will be DUE SATURDAY MAY, 22 at 11AM.

I will be expecting more thorough ansewers if you decide to to take the take-home exam. And, of course, you may always opt to write the paper. If you write the paper, it will be due THURSDAY MAY 20th at 4pm if you are in section 001 or SATURDAY MAY 22 at 11am if you are in section 002. There will be a brief review in class on the last day of class, and on the discussion forum, if you choose to use it. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Some Terms

Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Sound
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
Possible Worlds
A Priori
A Posteriori
The Free Will Thesis
Causal Determinism
Incompatibilism
Hard Determinism
Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Leibniz's Law
Weirob's Challenge
The Soul View
Dualism
Materialism
Intensional Fallacy
Person Stages/Temporal Parts
Memory View of Personal Identity
Body View of Personal Identity (Weirob's position)
Eliminativism
Sorites Arguments
One Bit No Diff Principle
Perdurantism
Endurantism
Eternalism
Presentism
Tree and the Cellulose
Statue and the Clay (if we get to it)
Body/Body Minus (if we get to it)

Principles, Arguments, and Objections

The Free Will Problem
Arguments against Dualism: elusiveness of spirit, correlation of minds and bodies, location of spirits, continuity of nature (evolution and individual growth)
Arguments for Dualism: from semantic properties, aesthetic properties, modal properties, from location, ineffability of qualia, possibility of ghosts and zombies, argument from free will, Descartes' knowledge argument
Body Translplant Case (for Memory View of Personal Identity)
Fission (or Duplication) Case (against Brain Identity and Memroy View)
Intransitivity of Memory Objection to Memory View
Unger's Sorites Argument for Eliminativism about persons (i.e., that he does not exist)
The Puzzle of Change
Options in Response to the Puzzle of Change
Perdurantist's Response to the Puzzle of Change
Endurantist's Response to the Puzzle of Change
Why Hinchliff thinks that neither the Perdurantist and Endurantist solve the Puzzle
Hinchliff's Response to the Puzzle of Change

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