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Outline the problem Nozick's experience machine poses to hedonistic utilitarianism [5 MARKS]

Nozick asks us to imagine being placed into a virtual reality machine, this machine will replicate a life of extreme pleasure and happiness, with various pleasures and minimum pain. If we plug in we will ...

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Outline behaviourism and one objection to it

Hempel’s analytic behaviourism is the view that mental states are a private phenomenon, so cannot be verified in a public, intersubjective sense. Thus, we have to talk about them in terms that are empiric...

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Describe René Descartes' wax experiment in the Second Meditation and what it shows about human experience:

Although Descartes has proven to himself that he exists as a thinking thing (an argument he outlines with the cogito), he is still dissatisfied with any proof of the physical world and the reliab...

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What is the ontological argument for God's existence? Is it successful?

The ontological argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God. It is generally considered a part of natural theology - the use of human reason to know things about God independently of any act...

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Outline Descartes’ ‘evil deceiver’ argument and explain what he then says about his knowledge of his own existence.

Descartes suggests, that if we assume that there is an evil power, who's only goal is to deceive us, exists, then we can not be certain about the nature of our reality. He uses many examples. In one of th...

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