Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Nearly all philosophers and neuroscientists reject mind-body dualism. The primary objection is that that it
conflicts with the law of conservation of matter and energy in physics. The only way to accelerate matter or transform energy, including the matter and energy in your body, is to act upon it with other matter or energy. For these reasons, if your mind is going to influence the matter or energy of your brain or any other part of your body, your mind must itself be composed of matter or energy. James W. Kalat, Biological Psychology, 7th ed.
A) Argument, conclusion: The only way to accelerate ... other matter or energy.
B) Argument, conclusion: If your mind is going to influence ... matter or energy.
C) Argument, conclusion: The primary objection ... matter and energy in physics.
D) Nonargument.
E) Argument, conclusion: Nearly all philosophers ... mind-body dualism.
B
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