PHIL 1050 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chick Sexing, Nick Bostrom, Simulated Reality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: John Hacker- Wright

Document Summary

Raional worldview: the aim is to produce a raional worldview: an account of nature and our place within it that does not contradict itself and takes into account all of the best available evidence, 1. What is our standard for deeming something a. Are numbers, proposiions, values real? (metaphysics: 2. Are the senses reliable sources of informaion about the world? (epistemology: aim of philosophy: to arrive at a raional worldview. For example, how do the theories in physics relate to theories in biology: the syntheic task of philosophy: people may have various beliefs about nature, Analysis: breaking concepts down into component ideas. Necessary and suicient condiions: the term if" tells us the suicient condiions for being something: If you are a woman, then you are a human being: being a woman is a suicient condiion for being human, on the other hand, being human is a necessary (but not suicient) condiion for being a woman.