PHIL 201 Exam 4 Question and answers
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Physicalism - correct answer ✔persons are only physical bodies; advanced
human behaviors are the result of evolutionary selection
Idealism - correct answer ✔persons are only spirit/soul/mind
Dualism - correct answer ✔body and soul are both real
Sam Harris' view - correct answer ✔brain is fully determined by
nature/nurture: no free will; physicalism
George Berkeley's view - correct answer ✔body events are actually ideas or
mental events; idealism
Descartes' dualism - correct answer ✔persons are two distinct, equally real
substances: body and soul; actions are interactions of both
Objections to Descartes dualism - correct answer ✔How is the interaction of
two substances which share no properties possible?
Plato's dualism - correct answer ✔soul is the true reality; body is the lesser,
mortal substance; death is freeing/desirable
Aristotle's dualism - correct answer ✔body and soul relate as form to matter;
persons are a single substance, not a combination
verified to pass 2025
Physicalism - correct answer ✔persons are only physical bodies; advanced
human behaviors are the result of evolutionary selection
Idealism - correct answer ✔persons are only spirit/soul/mind
Dualism - correct answer ✔body and soul are both real
Sam Harris' view - correct answer ✔brain is fully determined by
nature/nurture: no free will; physicalism
George Berkeley's view - correct answer ✔body events are actually ideas or
mental events; idealism
Descartes' dualism - correct answer ✔persons are two distinct, equally real
substances: body and soul; actions are interactions of both
Objections to Descartes dualism - correct answer ✔How is the interaction of
two substances which share no properties possible?
Plato's dualism - correct answer ✔soul is the true reality; body is the lesser,
mortal substance; death is freeing/desirable
Aristotle's dualism - correct answer ✔body and soul relate as form to matter;
persons are a single substance, not a combination
