Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Judith Jarvis Thomson proposes an analogy to the abortion question: She asks you to consider a situation where you find yourself, in a hospital bed, attached to a famous violinist via intravenous tubes, who will die if you detach yourself from him before he is strong enough to live on his own.
2. A pro-choice utilitarian will use the rights of women as the key argument.
3. A pro-choice deontologist will use the rights of women as the key argument.
4. Utilitarianism may conclude that patients with a higher quality of life should get preferential treatment over those patients with a lower quality of life when it comes to medical care.
5. Peter Kemp is an advocate of the idea that since everyone is irreplaceable, everyone should be respected as a person and not treated as a commodity.
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True
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Which of the following is not a common pattern of deductive reasoning?
A. an argument from elimination B. a categorical syllogism C. an argument by definition D. a statistical argument
According to (what Regan calls) the "indirect duty" view of the treatment of animals, we
a. have a duty to animals to prevent their suffering, but the duty is best met indirectly by having experts do the work of preventing animal suffering. b. have no real duties to animals themselves, but if harming an animal causes suffering in a human, then our duties to the human may imply that we should not cause harm to the animal. c. have direct duties only when we cheerfully and willingly volunteer for them, but indirect duties if we merely accept them as obligations. d. have important duties to animals, but those duties are not as important as those we have to other humans. e. have a duty to relieve the suffering of animals only if we are the direct and immediate cause of that suffering.
A philosophical zombie is a philosopher who has returned from the dead.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which understanding of perception is represented by this statement: "All we can know are the way things appear to our minds; we can not know things-in-themselves. The categories of our mind structure raw sensations of things 'out there.'"
a. naive realism. b. contemporary realism. c. phenomenalism. d. subjective idealism.