Compare and contrast compatibilism and incompatibilism


Please note the number of the question you are answering: only answer one of these questions:

1. Describe and analyze Descartes arguments for why he believes the Mind and Body are distinct.

2. Is there a problem about how the Mind and Body can interact, if Dualism is true?

3. What is Turing's 'Imitation Game', and what is it supposed to show?

4. Is it possible for a machine to 'think'? To be 'conscious'? To 'understand'? Explain with reference to your readings in the Philosophy of Mind module.

5. Construct an argument showing that Searle's Chinese Room argument fails to show that machines cannot think.

6. What is a 'brain in a vat'? What is the thought experiment supposed to show? Can one prove that one is NOT a brain in a vat?

7. Do we have free will? Does our physical and psychological history/past determine our future?

8. Compare and contrast Compatibilism and Incompatibilism about free will.

9. Describe the view of Stace on language and free will.

10. What is Aristotle's concept of 'eudaimonia'?

11. What can one do to become a virtuous person, according to Aristotle?

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