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Note that your written responses MUST INTEGRATE COURSE CONTENT (it must come from something covered in the readings and lecture powerpoints), and MUST CITE SOURCES if you directly quote from the readings or powerpoints. If the response you provide is irrelevant to the way these terms were covered in class, you are liable to receive zero credit for it. Do keep in mind that all responses are manually submitted into Turnitin.Com for plagiarism detection, and may be scanned on Originality.Ai for AI-use detection. – – – – – -Please answer the following question, at least 100 words   Rene Descartes thinks we utilize the faculty of Judgment rather than the faculty of Sensation or the faculty of Imagination in order to know what is real.  Why is this so?  In your response, be sure to define and explain the difference between these three faculties.

According to the Manipulation Argument, Haji says that cases of responsibility-undercutting manipulation are relevantly similar to what? 

Which of the following can humans NOT do when it comes to bats? 

In the following, match the quotes with their corresponding missing words. 

Saul says that implicit bias gives rise to a new form of skepticism.  What does she call this new form? 

Fill in the blanks:  JL Mackie discusses four solutions to the problem of evil, which he says are logically fallacious.  The solutions are the following: First, Good cannot [term1] without evil, or Evil is necessary as a [term2] to Good.  Second, Evil is necessary as a [term3] to Good. Third, the [term4] is better with some evil in it than it could be if there were no evil. and Fourth, Evil is due to human [term5]. 

Saul spends some time discussing Miranda Fricker’s suggestion that we correct biases through a kind of individualistic reflection.  However, she thinks this is limiting.  What else does Saul think needs to be done? 

In the following, identify whether the following is a characteristic of the body, a characteristic of the mind, or a characteristic of neither, according to the Official Doctrine:  a)  Subject to mechanical laws – [answer1] b)  Not witnessable by other observers – [answer2] c) Only I can take direct cognisance of the states and processes – [answer3]

Why does the skepticism produced by implicit bias demand action? 

What conclusion does the skepticism created by learning about implicit bias lead to?