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What is the divine To be right is to be commanded by God.
command theory of moral To be wrong is to be forbidden by God.
obligation?
Vogel-Response to the deception argument. It is the
view that the RWH is a better explanation of our
What is Inference to the experiences than any skeptical hypothesis, and that
best explanation? Be able because of that, we have more reason to believe
to see how it works in RWH than skeptical hypotheses.
various cases. (White and White-Response to the fine-tuning argument. (Round
Vogel) up all explanations and pick the best one, therefore itis
rational to believe in it.) God is better than all
explanations, so God created the universe.
To be right is to be commanded by God. To be wrong
What is the G.E. Moore
is to be forbidden by God.
Shift? Know how it works
1. God exists.
in general and in the case
2. If God exists, he wouldn't allow unnecessary
of the problem of evil
suffering.So,
(Rowe)
3. Unnecessary suffering doesn't exist.
, What it is for an act to An act dominates when all the outcomes are as good
dominate other acts? Be or better than that of another decision on the matrix.
able to determine, given a
decision matrix, which act
dominates if any.
Take the likelihood of the outcome multiplied by the
How does one determine
utility of that outcome. Add all of the answers
expected utility?
together to find to the total expected utility.
What are the two laws of Belief the truth and Shun error. Passion can intervene
the intellect, according to when one cannot beat the other, and according to
James? James, it must.
What is the method of Taking down everything he thinks he knows and builds
doubt? (Descartes from a solid foundation. It becomes based on "I think
Meditation 1) therefore I am".
What is skepticism about Skepticism about the external world is the claim that
the external world? we don't know anything through our senses (our
(Vogel) sensory experience) about the world around us.
Skepticism about the external world is the claim that
we don't know anything through our senses (our
sensory experience) about the world around us.
Sneezing, moist eyes, recurring symptoms at certain
What is the explanationist times of year...
reply to skepticism? • Series of colds.
• Allergy.
• Periodically dormant chronic respiratory infection.
• Something other than an allergy.This one does not
suffice as an actual explanation.
Dualism (in general): the mental is not reducible to the
What is dualism? (lecture)
material.
Substance dualism (Descartes): minds and bodies are
What is substance
distinct substances - bodies are material; minds are
dualism? (lecture)
immaterial.