Question 1

In what way might our language be said to create our world? Drawing on your answer to this question, what practical implications do you think it could have, if any, for social change? If you believe that your answer has no such implications, explain why.

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Question 2

Do you think that our consciousness is effective in leading us to act? Do we make decisions, or do our decisions merely flow through us? Are these empirical questions, or metaphysical ones? Explain your answer.

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Question 3

is the view that reality is only one kind of thing.

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Question 4

Do you believe that pragmatism is a tenable middle ground between materialism and idealism? If not, why not? If so, why do you think this? How do your answers to these questions illustrate your own views on the value and role of metaphysics in understanding the world around you?

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Question 5

If everything is comprised of matter, and if all matter is governed by causal laws, it is possible that humans are free in the sense required for moral responsibility? Explain your answer.

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Question 6

The philosophical school that contends that is the underlying reality that appears to our consciousness is phenomenology.

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Question 7

According to James, pragmatism looks towards things.

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Question 8

Imagine that you are placed into a machine that stimulates your brain, making you think that your life is going wonderfully well, while all the time you are simply attached to an "Experience Machine" in a basement. Given that you could not tell that your life was illusory, would you choose to enter this machine, or not? Would it make a difference to you in answering this question if you learned that Berkeley's idealism was correct? Why, or why not?

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Quiz 3: Reality and Being