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Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to:
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1. Provide an overview of various general metaphysical positions and their relations, including dualism, monism, materialism, and idealism |
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2. State the mind-body problem |
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3. Describe Cartesian psychophysical dualism, locate its strengths and weaknesses, and evaluate Descartes' arguments for it |
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4. Distinguish between the identity theory and eliminativist versions of physicalism |
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5. Explain the nature of functionalism, the Turing Test, and Searle's Chinese Room objection to strong AI |
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6. Explain the hard determinist's position in the free will debate and assess its strength and weaknesses |
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7. Discuss the nature, strengths, and weaknesses of the libertarian's stance in the free will debate |
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8. Describe and evaluate compatibilism as a view in the free will debate |