Respond thoughtfully to five (5) questions from the Post-Reading Reflections questions in Chapter 9, and five (5) Post-Reading Reflections questions in Chapter 10. Make sure you write the question first and number each response.<\/p>\n
Chapter 9<\/p>\n
1. What was Descartes\u2019s proposal, and how did his Scholastic education influence it?<\/p>\n
2. Give a brief summary of the role methodic doubt plays in Descartes\u2019s overall effort to discover certain knowledge.<\/p>\n
3. How is skepticism important to Cartesian philosophy?<\/p>\n
4. What is the evil genius, and what is its significance to the Cartesian Genesis?<\/p>\n
5. Can the Evil Genius refute the cogito? Is there any way to \u201crefute\u201d the cogito?<\/p>\n
6. Give Descartes\u2019s argument for the existence of God in your own words and then analyze it. Is it convincing? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
7. How did Descartes answer the materialists\u2019 rejection of free will?<\/p>\n
8. What is the mind-body problem? How does Descartes deal with it? Is he successful? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
9. What is the \u201cview from nowhere\u201d and Why is Susan Bordo troubled by its cultural pervasiveness?<\/p>\n
Chapter 10<\/p>\n
1. Outline the development of the \u201cepistemological turn\u201d from Descartes through Locke and Berkeley to Hume.<\/p>\n
2. In your own words, reconstruct the basic empirical critique of rationalism.<\/p>\n
3. What is the tabula rasa? What is its significance to Locke\u2019s empiricism?<\/p>\n
4. Explain the philosophical significance of the question \u201cDoes a tree falling in the forest make a sound if no one is there to hear it?\u201d Then answer it as Berkeley would.<\/p>\n
5. Why is the distinction between impressions and ideas important to Hume\u2019s philosophy?6. Apply the empirical criterion of meaning to an example of your own choosing.<\/p>\n
7. How does Hume\u2019s bundle theory of the self affect his reasoning regarding personal identity and immortality?<\/p>\n
8. How does Hume account for the external world?<\/p>\n
9. Sketch Hume\u2019s analysis of cause and effect.<\/p>\n
10. Summarize and analyze Hume\u2019s critique of the argument from design.<\/p>\n
11. Construct a Humean analysis of some contemporary moral issue. What are the advantages of Hume\u2019s approach? The disadvantages?<\/p>\n
12. Why does Hume say \u201cI am ready to throw all my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasures of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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