Philosophy Assignment

Kindly read the required pages for this assignment: pages 72-76, 83-90, 101-105
Your responses to the Short-Answer Questions should be brief. Your response to the Long-Answer Prompt should be at least 100 words. No Plagiairsm!
Short-Answer Questions
1) Write the following arguments out in symbolic standard form. That is, put the premises and conclusion on their own line and then translate them using whatever letters you’d like along with the symbols for logical operators ( • v ~ ⊃ ≡ ). Don’t get tripped up with flowery rhetoric and extra words.
A) It seems clear—God, the creator of the world, exists unless evolutionary scientists are right about the world not needing a creator. The evidence shows that evolutionary scientists are right. Therefore, God doesn’t exist.
B) If it rains today, Alex is gonna get wet (he didn’t take an umbrella with him!). If Alex gets wet, he’ll be cranky when he gets home. So, to be clear, if it rains, Alex is gonna be cranky. Watch out.
C) ESP is not real! ESP is real only if psychics make reliable predictions… but they don’t.

2) State whether each of the above arguments (A-C) are valid or invalid and explain why—either in your own words or by pointing to the deductive valid forms (modus ponens, modus tollens, disjunctive syllogism, hypothetical syllogism, dilemma) or formal fallacies (affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, affirming a disjunct).

3) Provide an example of a logical fallacy that you may encounter in your everyday life (you can even quote one of your friends or family).

4) Ask a question about A) the reading itself or B) how to apply the ideas from the reading to everyday life.

Long-Answer Prompt (Should be at leaast 100 words)
5) Present yours or someone else’s position on a controversial issue—abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, death penalty, drug legalization, gun regulation, war, immigration, LGBTQ rights, animal rights, etc.—and think of a simple argument for it (it has to be truth functional, but it does not have to be good and you don’t have to agree with it). State it in normal language and then represent the argument symbolically, using at least two different operators ( • v ~ ⊃ ≡ ). Use the common (valid or invalid) logical forms for inspiration. Afterwards, briefly explain why you think it would be helpful to represent these types of argument in symbolic form.

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