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PHIL201 Final Exam - The Philosophy of Death
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1. Someone who believes that free will cannot exist because everything is causally determined is known as which of the following?
2. In Jonathan Swift's tale, why is Gulliver initially enthusiastic about the immortal Struldbrugs?
3. According to Locke, which of the following statements is true of person and man?
4. The fact that we cannot empirically check whether someone has the same soul from one moment to the next implies which of the following?
5. According to Thomas Nagel, why is death bad?
6. According to John Perry (actually, his character Weirob), which of the following theories of personal identity do we use in practice most of the time?
7. At the end of Tolstoy's novella, Ivan Ilyich announces which of the following?
8. In Jonathan Swift's tale, which of the following is true of the immortal Struldbrugs?
9. Locke was motivated to provide an account of personal identity that did not depend on the body in order to explain which of the following?
10. Which of the following is NOT a way in which Plato thinks the soul is like the forms?
11. In Tolstoy's novel, Ivan Ilyich is surprised by which of the following?
12. Fill in the blank. According to the concept of supervenience, minds are to physical things as computer images are to _____________.
13. Fill in the blank. An argument from the best explanation in favor of the existence of the soul is analogous to a scientific argument for the existence of ______________.
14. The problem of personal identity is best phrased by which of the following questions?
15. Fill in the blank. Professor Kagan suggests that a third category alongside 'alive' and dead' may be necessary to account for cases of _______________.
16. According to Walter Kaufmann, what is the best attitude to have toward death?
17. According to physicalism, which of the following statements is true?
18. Plato's argument from simplicity states which of the following?
19. According to Epicurus, death cannot be bad for you because of which reason?
20. The conditional, 'If you really believed you were going to die, you would constantly just scream in terror' is presented in support of which view?
21. All arguments for the immortality of the soul presuppose which of the following?
22. In order to solve the various puzzles about the goodness or badness of death, Fred Feldman presupposes which of the following?
23. In order for most of Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul to work, we need to accept that which of the following exists?
24. According to Locke, the identity of an animal over time depends on which of the following?
25. According to the valuable container theory of the value of life, which of the following statements is true?

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