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Title: PHIL222 Christmas Exam Review


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PHIL222 Christmas Exam Review
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Mind/Body Dualism
  • Descartes I think therefore I am (mind is
    completely separate from body)
  • Many Christians have believed such mind-body
    dualism (perhaps also influenced by Gnostics)
  • Little biblical support for mind-body dualism
  • Nephesh and psyche of Bible refer to breath of
    life or life
  • Doctrine of resurrection and the biblical view of
    human beings in Judaism Christianity speaks
    against radical dualism and for a holistic view
    of the person

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General
  • Conflict
  • Independence
  • Dialogue
  • Integration
  • Limit-Questions
  • God of the Gaps
  • Naturalism
  • Materialism

4
Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Atomism
  • Monism
  • Idealism
  • Anthropic Principle
  • Apparent Evidence for Fine Tuning
  • Deism vs. Theism
  • Multiple Universes Hypothesis and types
  • Many World Quantum Theory
  • Oscillating Universe
  • Multiple Isolated Domains

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Quantum Physics
  • Classical Scientific View
  • Determinism
  • Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
  • Interpretations of the meaning of the Uncertainty
    Principle
  • Realism
  • Critical Realism
  • Holism
  • Reductionism

6
Biology and Evolution
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Intelligent Design
  • Young Earth Creationism
  • Richard Dawkin's Eye example
  • Baldwin Effect
  • Top-down causation examples
  • NOMA

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Genetics, Neuroscience and Human Nature
  • Sociobiology Neuroscience
  • Reductive Materialism
  • Kin Selection
  • The Paradox of Free Will
  • Determinism
  • Moral Objectivism
  • Holmes Ralstons objection to sociobiology
  • Ruses Projection Theory of Religion
  • John Hicks Objection to "Projection Theory"
    Arguments
  • Science Mind/Body Dualism Modern Theology
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