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Page iThe Conscious Mind Page ii PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES Series Editor: Owen Flanagan, Duke University SELF EXPRESSIONS Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life Owen Flanagan DECONSTRUCTING THE MIND Stephen P. Stich THE CONSCIOUS MIND In Search of a

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TLFeBOOKSCIENTIFICANDTECHNOLOGICAL THINKINGTLFeBOOKThis page intentionally left blankTLFeBOOKSCIENTIFICANDTECHNOLOGICAL THINKINGEdited byMichael E. Gorman University of Virginia Ryan D. Tweney Bowling Green State University David C

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Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision MakingThinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making. Edited by David Hardman and Laura Macchi. C 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN 0-471-4945

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AcknowledgmentsI began writing this book during the academic year 1980- 1981 while I was on leave from Wellesley College and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University . Many people have helped me get from the first draft to the book you now have bef

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To doFriday, August 22, 2008 2:15 PMWork item Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Quiz 1To do Make notes of definitions Read notesDue date 08/25 08/251 - Why Places MatterThursday, August 21, 2008 9:25 AMOutline: Place Interdependence of places - our

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Review Questions 1. What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory? A hypothesis is a collection of final ideas that seem to explain what a scientist has observed, while a theory is a self-consistent description of nature, pieced together b

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EALC First Mid-Term Review <Chinese Written Language> -Very different from Western alphabets -Oldest in archaeology -14th Century B.C.E. Shang Dynasty: Oracle Bone Script (animal bones or turtle shells) -Communication between humans & spirits (gods)

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Reading Assignment 10th Week In Roderick Chisholm's Human Freedom and the Self, Chisholm first states the metaphysical problem of human freedom. The problem is that the fact that human beings are responsible agents conflicts with a deterministic view

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Assignment: Supplementary #4 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 14th, 2007 Supplementary #4 1. Proxima Centauri T = T1 / [1 (v2/c2)] [1 (v2/c2)] = T1 / T 1 (v2/c2) = (T1 / T)2 v/c = [1 (T1 / T)2] v/c = [1 (0.00227)2] v = .9999974219c 2. Sirius T

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Assignment: Chapter 7-11 Class: Astronomy I Date: 10-17-07 Supplementary Problem Set #2 1) From a chemistry book or the internet compute the masses of the following atoms or molecules in kilograms: H, He, N2, O2, Ar and CO2 Hydrogen 1.6735 E-27 kg H

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Assignment: Supplementary #3 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 31st, 2007 Supplementary #31)2x3x4x5x6=21 x 21.58496 x 22 x 22.32193 x 22.58496 = 29.49185 = 720 2) 22 x 34 =24.45943 x 25.08746 = 29.54689 = 748 3) (35 x 7)/5 = (Hint: if multipli

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Assignment: Chapter 1-6 Class: Astronomy I Date: 9-17-07 Supplementary Problem Set #11) 9:34:42 - 2:03:35 7:31:7 2) 12:59:03 - 3:47:25 12:58:63 3:47:25 9:11:38 3) 19:25:45-8:54:59 19:24:105-8:54:59 18:84:105-8:54:59 10:30:46

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Assignment: Supplementary #5 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 28th, 2007 Supplementary #5 1. A. Regular CD (Compact Disc) Diameter = 12 cm Circumference = 32.7 cm P = 3.14159 B. Clock Diameter = 32 cm Circumference = 100.5 cm P = 3.14159 C. U.S. Qua

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Theater Arts 7B Film Analysis The Godfather: Part II The Godfather Part II is known to be the most critically and artistically successful sequel in history of movies. Some critics argue that it is even superior to the original The Godfather released

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Theater Arts 7B Movie Review Knocked Up I am confident to say, after watching Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, that this movie is the epitome of new world of comedy in Hollywood. As much as Knocked Up succeeded in the box office, future comedy directors wil

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Reading Assignment 12th Week In the reading "Freedom," Thomas Nagel addresses the irreconcilable conflict between the subjective point of view, or autonomy, and what analysis of the problem of free will from the objective point of view tells us. In t

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Reading Assignment 13th Week "The Immoralist's Challenge" starts Socrates stating that he had finished the discussion about justice with a sufficient response, but people seemed to dislike the conclusion reached. Then Glaucon divides goods into three

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Reading Assignment 4th Week In his article "What is Justified Belief?" Goldman first introduces two criteria for an adequate theory of justification. First, the so-called theory must have and provide a set of substantive conditions that can be explai

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Reading Assignment 5th Week J. P. Morelands Defense of Dualism starts off with defining the fundamental principles of dualism. He first focuses on two main issues of the so-called ,Mind-Body Problem. "First, is a human being composed of just one ulti

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Reading Assignment 6th Week David Lewis begins his essay by clearing up that he is not arguing for the identity theory on the grounds of simplicity or economy, but he is certainly arguing that it is a consequence of the claim that "physical phenomena

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Reading Assignment 8th Week In Bernard Williams "The Self and the Future," Williams attempts to show that bodily-continuity is a necessary condition of personal identity. He first presents a thought experiment identical to Lockes body-swapping concep

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Reading Assignment 9th Week In Peter Van Inwagen's argument, Inwagen purports to prove that responsibility and determinism are incompatible. He begins by stating two premises for the argument: 1. Determinism is incompatible with free will. 2. Moral r

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Reading Assignment 1st Week 1. In the first reading "Evil and Omnipotence," J. L. Mackie discusses the relationships between God, omnipotence, and evil by stating and rejecting various theories and ideas. The author boldly questions whether God is re

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Reading Assignment 2nd Week "The First Meditation" by Descartes serves as the foundation of his later meditations ad of modern skepticism. Descartes uses the speaker named the Meditator to convey a series of his beliefs and reasons throughout the Fir

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Assignment: Chapter 28 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 26th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Most astrobiologists suspect that if there are living organisms somewhere in the universe, it would be life as we know it, based on unique properties of carbon at

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Reading Assignment 3rd Week In W.C. Salmon's take on the Problem of Induction, he concentrates his responses on the idea of knowledge and reality. With his foremost introduction of David Hume's Problem of Induction, he first defines the question itse

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Assignment: Chapter 27 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 26th, 2007 Review Questions 1. The horizon problem, or the isotropy problem, questions how it is possible for unrelated parts of the universe to have almost exactly the same temperature. The fl

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Assignment: Chapter 26 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 21st, 2007 Review Questions 1. The gravitational forces between any finite number of stars, Newton argued, would in time cause them all to fall together, and the universe would soon be a compac

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CH. 16 What is hydrogen fusion? Why is hydrogen fusion fundamentally unlike the burning of a log in a fireplace? The process of converting hydrogen into helium is called hydrogen fusion. This is fundamentally unlike the burning of a log in fireplace

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Assignment: Chapter 17 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 29th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Luminosity is how much energy they emit into space per second compared to that of the Sun. The actual brightness is not compared to the luminosity of the Sun. 2. P

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Assignment: Chapter 12 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 8th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Even though Mars passes closer to the Earth than Jupiter does, Mars has a very elongated orbit that makes it seem different at various oppositions while Jupiter has

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Assignment: Chapter 11 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 3rd , 2007 Review Questions 1. Mercury and Venus are both inferior planets whose orbits around the Sun are smaller than the Earth's. They appear after sunset over the western horizon and as a mo

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Assignment: Chapter 13 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 15th, 2007 Review Questions 1. The Galilean satellites are bright enough to be seen even to the naked eye. However to the naked eye, these satellites are lost in the overwhelming glare of Jupite

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Assignment: Chapter 2 Class: Astronomy I Date: August 28th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Describe three structures or carvings made by past civilizations that show an understanding of astronomy. About four to five thousand years ago, the British inhabita

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Assignment: Chapter 3 Class: Astronomy I Date: August 29th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Explain the difference between sunlight and moonlight. The sunlight is simply the light that the sun emits, while the moonlight is the sunlight that has struck the M

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Assignment: Chapter 4 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 5th, 2007 Review Questions 1. How did the ancient Greeks explain why the sun and moon slowly change their positions relative to the background stars? The ancient Greeks imagined that the planet

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Assignment: Chapter 5 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 10th, 2007 Review Questions 1. When Jupiter is undergoing retrograde motion as seen from Earth, would you expect the eclipses of Jupiter's moons to occur several minutes early, several minutes

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Assignment: Chapter 6 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 12th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Describe refraction and reflection. Explain how these processes enable astronomers to build telescopes. Refracting telescopes produce images by bending light rays

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Assignment: Chapter 7 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 17th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Do all the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction? Are all of the orbits circular? If one observes the solar system from a point several astronomical units a

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Assignment: Chapter 8 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 24th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Describe three properties of the solar system that are thought to be a result of how the solar system formed. a) The terrestrial planets composed of rocky substan

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Assignment: Chapter 9 Class: Astronomy I Date: September 26th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Nearly 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth's atmosphere is in a state of perpetual activity, and the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and surface a

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The Empire and the Way of Heaven Jia Yi "The Faults of Qin" -Biggest fault lies with the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi -Reached the pinnacle of power, putting the rest of the world into submission -Abolished the ways of ancient kings, and put to dea

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CH. 24 What was the Shapley-Curtis debate all about? Was a winner declared at the end of the debate? Whose ideas turned out to be correct? Shapley argued that spiral nebulae were small, nearby objects scattered around our Galaxy like the globular clu

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CH. 12 Explain why Saturn is more oblate than Jupiter, even though Saturn rotates more slowly. Even though Saturn rotates a little slower than Jupiter does, Saturn has less mass, and therefore less gravity to pull its material inward. Hence, Saturn's

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Assignment: Chapter 20 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 7th, 2007 Review Questions 1. The luminosity changes relatively little during this stage, so the evolutionary track moves almost horizontally, along a path called the horizontal branch. Horizon

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Oral Exam Questions CH. 1 What is the difference between a solar system and a galaxy? A solar system includes the Sun, all the major planets, all their various moons, and asteroids or comets. However, a galaxy is a huge assemblage of stars and univer

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Assignment: Chapter 19 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 5th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Over the past 4.56 x 109 years, thermonuclear reactions at the core have depleted hydrogen in the core and increased the amount of helium in the core. 2. The inner

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Assignment: Chapter 18 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 5th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Astronomers have to piece together the evolutionary history of stars by studying different stars at different stages in their life cycles. 2. Stars last very much

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Assignment: Chapter 16 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 29th, 2007 Review Questions 1. The total amount of energy emitted by the Sun each second is called the Sun's luminosity. It is about 3.9 x 1026 watts, or 3.9 x 1026 joules of energy per second.

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Assignment: Chapter 14 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 17th, 2007 Review Questions 1. At opposition, Uranus is just barely bright enough to be seen with the naked eye under good conditions, so it was probably seen by the ancients. However, they prob

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Assignment: Chapter 15 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 22nd, 2007 Review Questions 1. The discovery of Uranus in 1781 made many astronomers to wonder if there were other undiscovered planets that are too dim to be seen by the naked eye. Astronomers

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Assignment: Chapter 10 Class: Astronomy I Date: October 1st , 2007 Review Questions 1. Because the Moon exerts just as much gravitational force on the Earth as the Earth does on the Moon, it is not correct to say that the Moon orbits around the Earth

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Assignment: Chapter 25 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 21st, 2007 Review Questions 1. These quasars were originally called quasi-stellar objects in order to distinguish them from radio emitters because they emit little or no radio radiation. 2. Ast

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Assignment: Chapter 22 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 12th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Einstein's theory describes how motion affects our measurements of distance and time. 2. Those same observers would measure different values of the speed of an ai

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Assignment: Chapter 24 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 19th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Many astronomers believed that spiral nebulae were components of our Galaxy because a considerable number of nebulae are in fact scattered throughout the Milky Wa

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Assignment: Chapter 21 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 7th, 2007 Review Questions 1. A neutron star is an incredibly dense sphere composed primarily of neutrons. A drawing in an eleventh-century structure in New Mexico suggested this existence of s

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Assignment: Chapter 23 Class: Astronomy I Date: November 19th, 2007 Review Questions 1. Because Milky Way completely encircles us, all the stars in the sky are part of an enormous disk of stars, and we see them as a bright band. 2. Interstellar extin

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Chapter 1 -Primate: member of mammalian order Primates, including prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans -Evolution: change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations -Bio Anthropology: study of humans in evolution

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Article 1: The Facts of Evolution by Michael Shermer -Origin of Species: theory comes to and from the facts, not from political or philosophical beliefs, whether from God or the godfather of scientific empiricism. -William Paley: God vs. Darwin: natu

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Anthropology 151 Emerging HumanityWrite the following information on the index cardname (last name, first name) phone number (home) major year in school reasons for taking this courseInstructor: Dr. James BaymanOffice location: DEAN HALL 201 Of