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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, in at least 100 words.   What is the difference Saul makes between Traditional Skepticism vs. Bias-Related Doubt?  In your discussion, be sure to explain how these concepts were connected to the video clip by Keisha Ray discussing medical racism.

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, in at least 100 words.   Explain the Subjective Character of Experience, and how Nagel discusses it in order to show its challenge to materialism. 

What is the term Ryle uses to refer to Descartes’ Official Doctrine (which he calls with “deliberate abusiveness”? 

King writes that he stands in the middle of two opposing forces (which, by the way, can perpetuate further injustice).  One force is the force of complacency.  What is the other force? 

Fill in the blank:  Ryle argues that a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand globe and a right-hand glove, but not that he bought…

What was King’s response to being called an “extremist”? 

Fill in the Blanks:  The Argument for determinism says that:  1. All human [which1] is determined (that is, it is a result of a chain of [which2] 2. If determinism is true, then human beings are not free to [which3] their actions (that is, we could not have done otherwise.  ————————————————————————– Therefore, human beings do not have [which4], and may lack [which5] for their actions.

If we say that “all matter is energy,” we may know what “is” means, but what might we not know? 

Rene Descartes argues for a position called substance dualism. In this position he describes the characteristics of the body and the characteristics of the mind.  In the following, identify whether the following is a characteristic of the body, or a characteristic of the mind.  Public [which1] Non-extended [which2] Exclusive to me, and is not measurable [which3] Divisible [which4] Not bound by time and space [which5]

Identify whether the following is true of hard determinism, indeterminism (libertarianism), compatibilism (soft determinism), or some combination of the three:  The Argument for Determinism is sound (all the premises are true) [which1] Some human actions are free [which2] Everything is caused [which3] The first premise in the Argument for Determinism is false [which4] There is moral responsibility [which5]