Philosophers + beliefs Flashcards
1
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Chisholm
A
- Believes libertarianism
- Agent-causation
2
Q
Ayer
A
- Believes compatibilism
3
Q
Vogel
A
- Thinks Descartes’ line of reasoning amounts to an even more challenging case for external world skepticism than the original argument we were trying to resist
- The “underdetermination principle”
4
Q
Nagel
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- Views on death
- Believes that death isn’t an evil
- Believes that what makes life worth living is the mere enjoyment of conscious states and activities, no matter how good or bad they are
5
Q
Parfit
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- Psychological continuity theory; people are ongoing streams of psychological continuity
6
Q
Descartes
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- Argument for skepticism
(The dreaming hypothesis, The evil demon hypothesis)
7
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Paley
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- Local argument from design
