1. Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism. Dualisms will help you the understand the relationship between the minds,belief, and physical matters and thinking. John...

1. Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes

on dualism.

Dualisms will help you the understand the relationship between the

minds,belief, and physical matters and thinking. John Searle version of dualism

knows as the superveniece theory. This theory mean sometime he claim its dualism

sometime he claim its not. Descartes confess

that the mind and physical are dissimilar objects. Descartes theory was known

as substance dualism. Life is composed of two things mind and the body. One of

them is material and immaterial.

2. Compare and contrast the views of George Berkeley and Thomas

Hobbes on the mind.GeorgeBerkeley believes that the only thing that’s real is

ideas. The object we come across with is an idea in our head. Ideas are consider immaterial. For example if you think of a pineapple. It

has a unique form and color and weight.

Taste different and smell different. This is view in our mind of pineapple.Berkeley

say that the world compose of two things just ideas mind. FurthermoreThomas

Hobbes believes that bodies in motion are the only things that exist. Human

functions and activities are automatic

3. Does the materialist position imply a determinist position on the

possibility of free will? Explain.

4. Explain what David Hume means by saying that we have no evidence

of the self. How is Hume’s view related to Malaria’s on this subject?

5. If a computer app beats you every time you play chess, is the

computer smarter than you? Does your computer think?

6. Is free will possible if there is such a thing as God’s plan?

7. Explain the paradox of Buridan’sdonke and what Spinoza makes

of this paradox.

8. In what sense does Alyosha

Karamazov realize that he is free in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

9. For existentialists from

Dostoyevsky to Sartre, in what sense are human beings outside determinism?

10. Explain, compare, and contrast

the views of Anselm and Gaunilo regarding the Ontological argument.

11. Explain and evaluate the views

of Freud and Nietzsche, on the rationality of religious belief.

12. Explain and evaluate the views

of Tolstoy and Kierkegaard, on the rationality of religious belief.

13. Explain and evaluate Pascal’s

Wager. Would belief based on such an argument get you into heaven?

14. Explain and evaluate William

Paley’s version of the design argument.

15. Explain and evaluate the

problem of evil.