PHI 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Searle, Thomas Nagel, Chinese Room

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: All

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Part i: write a short answer (1-3 paragraph) to three (3) of the following five (5) Questions (3 x 10 marks = 30 marks). (note: answers to these questions must be clear, complete and accurate. The aim is to demonstrate understanding of the relevant concepts and arguments. Make sure all the steps of the relevant arguments are explained. ) However, what it is like to be that creature can only be known from a particular point of view. Thus to appreciate what it is like to be a bat, one would have to be capable of accessing bat experiences produced through echolocation, which would require that one have perceptual faculties akin to those of a bat. Only then could we understand the first person perspective of the bat. (ii) physicalism is the view that everything that exists is physical. This implies that everything there is can be explained or accounted for in physical terms in the framework of physics.