Which perfection of the Greatest Conceivable Being is challenged by the paradox of the stone?

1. What
did Kant refer to as “dogmatic slumber”?
2.
Identify
the argument’s conclusion: The sun has risen every morning since time
immemorial. Therefore, the sun will rise
tomorrow.
3.
Explain
why the following argument is valid despite having false premises: All movie stars live in Hollywood. Steve Carell is a movie star. Therefore, Steve Carell lives in Hollywood.
4.
Identify
the fallacy: Handing out food and water to people standing in line to vote must
hurt the integrity of the election, because Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has made doing so illegal.
5.
Does Aquinas’ first mover allow for the
possibility of an infinite causal regression?
6.
What
example does Gaunilo use to discredit the ontological argument?
7.
Which
perfection of the Greatest Conceivable Being is challenged by the paradox of
the stone?
8.
Provide
one example of a moral evil.
9.
Who,
according to Mill, is qualified to judge which pleasures are worth more than
others?
10.
Philosopher
Philippa Foot devised an ethical thought experiment known as the Trolley
Problem. A runaway trolley is speeding
toward a group of four or five men working on the track. They do not see the trolley coming and will
all be killed if no action is taken.
There is a switch that will divert the trolley to a sidetrack. Throwing the switch will save the workmen,
but kill a lone worker on the sidetrack.
Does an act utilitarian throw the switch?
11.
Do
deontological theories emphasize consequences or principles?
12.
Which
citizens of Socrates’ kallipolis correspond with the spirited part of the soul?
13.
Does
Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy focus on the cognitive, the
affective, or the experiential component of the mind?
14.
Which
form of monism claims that everything is material?
15.
How
did Ryle view the mind?
16.
How
does functionalism offer a theory of mind that does not seem to succumb to the
charge of chauvinism?
17.
Which
thesis claims freedom of action and universal determinism are not compatible
with one another?
18.
Does
the hard determinist’s claim that free will is an illusion imply that morality
is an illusion as well? Why?
19.
What
is the difference between freedom of action and freedom of will?
20.
Consider
Locke’s case of the prince and the cobbler.
It’s the morning after the transplant.
Is the cobbler in the cobbler’s body or is he in the prince’s body? Why?

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