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Questions
1. List and explain two ways in which the Darwinian view of life challenges the assumptions of traditional Western views of human nature.
2. Why did René Descartes think that substance dualism is true? Give an argument that Descartes offered in favor of substance dualism. Then give a reason for thinking that this particular argument fails to show what Descartes thought it showed.
3. Explain two of the four main objections that have led most contemporary philosophers of mind to reject René Descartes' substance dualism.
4. What are mental states, according to philosophical behaviorism? Give one example of a mental state and what a philosophical behaviorist might say that state reduces to. Then give two objections to the philosophical behaviorist account of the mind.
5. What is property dualism? Explain how it can be seen as a compromise between two extremes.
6. Explain why free will (in the traditional sense) is incompatible with determinism. Then explain why a philosopher might conclude that free will (in the traditional sense) is impossible regardless of whether or not determinism is true.
7. State a version of the cosmological argument for the existence of God and give two objections to it.
8. State a version of the argument from design for the existence of God and give two objections to it (biological and astrophysics).