Philosophy Assignment | Online Homework Help
Structure your answers in one continuous essay. 3-6 pages of content. Cover page and abstract optional. Fonts: Times new Roman or Arial, size 12, 1.2-1.5 spaces between the lines. Don’t forget to include your name on your filename and in your document. APA format for citation (author, year) and reference page. You have to thematically tie your answers. For example, Hume’s problems in 3 are answered in 4 by Kant. Write down the whole bibliographical information of your sources in a reference page that you will add at the end of your work. Required info in reference page: Author(s), year of publication, Book title or Journal title, Editor, City. Name of translator only if available. If it’s an internet resource add the URL after you add all the other relevant info. Do not use internet resources that do not include name of author. Do not reference any social media entry. Do not use apps, webpages or services that ‘write’ the work for you. Plagiarism is not tolerated in any way shape or form. You may submit your paper in the provided text box or as an attachment in .PDF .DOC or .XDOC format. Due date is May 12 at 11:59 pm. I’ll be available until that date to answer any questions you might have through BlackBoard messages. Rubric: This essay weights 40% of your total final grade. The rubric is divided to add to 100% meaning that If you cover 100% of this rubric you earn 40/100 final points: 1- 25%- Answering what the philosopher actually thought, or, at least, not making the philosopher contradict himself. 2- 25%- Your own interpretation of the problem and the thoughts of the philosopher. 3- 20%- How clearly you convey your message. 4- 15% – Proper citation in APA format. 5- 10% – Reference page.* (Even if it only counts for 10% it’s mandatory to include reference page. In other words it’s a necessary but not sufficient condition for proper submission.) 6- 5% – Grammar. Guide Questions: 1- Describe the problem of interaction in Descartes’s Mind-Body dualism. You might want to add what we saw in class about the Benjamin Libet’s brain activity / free will experiments. 2- Verifying causality, the existence of the Self and the logical justification of Induction are all problems for Hume, describe his arguments for at least one of these. 3- Kant ‘answers’ to Hume that even if we are tied to the perspective of our empirical habits we can still know universal truths like: ‘Everything must have a cause’, ‘All experiences imply a self’ and/or ‘Induction can lead to verifiable laws of nature’. How does he use the notion of ‘synthetic a-priori’ to argue these statements? (You only have to choose one statement but can answer two or three if you wish to). 4- Hegel believes that reality = rationality. What does this mean for human history and for our possibility of knowing things in themselves?
