This is an introductory philosophy course. This course uses the four texts and additional readings on this google drive link(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19EkfBPP5IPNHFDeZ5SJEFXwzagGTOT2K?usp=sharing). NO SECONDARY SOURCES ARE ALLOWED, it’s a requirement: four texts: 1. Plato, Republic, 2. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 3. Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, 4. Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. in the google drive link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19EkfBPP5IPNHFDeZ5SJEFXwzagGTOT2K?usp=sharingThere are folders containing readings for each class. There is also a “Powerpoint Slides” folder that contains the information for each class in a more digestible format. There are 5 short answer questions where the answers should be 1-2 paragraphs long. There are 2 essay questions where each answer should be 2-3 pages long. There is no hard word count for this assignment. I’m expecting the 5 short answer questions to fit in 2-3 pages and the 2 essay questions to fit into 4-6 pages, for a total of around 8 pages.The 2 essay questions need to be the format of: step 1: introductory paragraphstep 2: present the argument in standard form (Refer to attached “Paper Writing Guide.docx” file)step 3: Motivate the argumentstep 4: object to the argumentstep 5: assess your argument I have attached a document (“Paper Writing Guide.docx”) which gives more detailed instructions for how to do this. I have also attached a sample short essay which shows the format needed (“Sample Short Paper – Is Every Good Deed Selfish.docx”).PART I: SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSAnswer FIVE questions 1. According to Descartes’s what is the source of error? Is error avoidable? How?2. Why does Nagel think that consciousness experience is subjective? How does he support this claim? What implications does his view have for the scientific study of consciousness?3. What is Shame? What causes shame and what impact does the experience of shame have on our cognition?4. What is the difference between strong and weak AI? What is Searle’s argument against strong AI?5. What is the Dream argument? Why does Descartes revisit it in meditation 6?6. What is Empathy? In what way is Stein’s account of empathy different from arguments from analogy or inferential arguments? How does Empathy overcome or avoid the problems inherent to these types of arguments?7. What is physicalism? What is one argument against physicalism?
