2025F PHI-102-300: Introduction to Philosophy

Midterm Examination - Units 1-4 - Major elective - Must be submitted on time

     Introduction to Philosophy                  Midterm Exam                      Prof. Howarth  

All answers must be written in legible, well-formed sentences, so plan your answers wisely. All answers should be based on only the class’ assigned readings and class discussions and in the form of a well-supported argument. Consider how studied material not specifically and explicitly present in questions may relate to your responses. The goal here is to demonstrate your mastery of the course material and methods. Your responses should make cases, not statements. Pledge, Argue. Quote and cited from assigned readings (only).

Respond to a total of 5 questions. Argue. Pledge.

   I.Provide answers for four (4) of the following (20 points each, total of 80 points):

          1.Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the cosmological argument?

          2.How might Aristotelian ergon argument be presupposed by Kant?

          3.Explain Descartes method for arriving at certainty to the class’ discussions/reading on knowing.

          4.What are the strengths and weaknesses of then teleological argument?

          5.Relate the problem of universals to Kant’s Copernican Revolution:

          6.Detail how Kant’s theory of noumena is more compatible with either Plato’s or Aristotle’s metaphysics:

          7.Critically compare virtue ethics and Kant’s ethics?

          8.Compare Berkeley’s esse est percipi to Anselm’s ontological argument:

          9.Relate Locke’s Representation Theory of Knowledge to the four “-tivities” explored in class:

          10.Support what the sophists and Hume have in common:

          11.Argue for Hume’s theory of impressions and its skeptical implications for the self:

          12.Explicate the details of the kinds of knowledge/truth that Hume and Kant argued for:

      II.Provide answers for one (1) of the following (20 points each, total of 20 points)

          13.Outline the details and import of the epistemic turn.

 14.Outline the details and import of the mind-body problem.

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Reading material

you have previous readings in previous discussions. 

must used required book. you already book at here:  https://www.studyfull.com/storage/questions/1758791789vdocpub_the_path_of_philosophy_truth_wonder_an...