Phil 1101 1st EditionExam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 11Lecture 1 (January 22)Know the following terms: cosmological arguments, argument (both deductive and inductive)Lecture 2 (January 27) State and carefully explain Aquinas’s Causal Argument for the existence of God. Explain the objections that can be made against his Argument and discuss if these objections are persuasive.Identify what a Cosmological Argument is and what the definition of God is according to Aquinas.Lecture 3 (January 29)Understand and be able to discuss the Ontological Argument and the objections against this argument.Identify Anselm’s response and discuss the issues of his premises.Lecture 4 (February 3)Understand what the problems of evil areBe able to state and explain Mackie’s Problem of Evil Argument. Identify the two types of evil/suffering in the world and be able to differentiate them.Do not need to know the easy ways out of The Problem of Evil Argument, but you do need to know the more likely objections of this argument.List and explain the four initial theist explanations for evil. Define the crux of the problem and describe the Free Will Objection.Lecture 5 (February 10)Understand how Stump relates to the Free Will Objection and her belief on the matter.Identify the problems with the free will defense. Be able to relate Stump’s solution to the problem of evil.Understand the theists’ point of why God must allow for suffering.Lecture 6 (February 12)Be able to reiterate and explain Clifford’s Argument on reasons. Identify the two major questions his argument brings up. Understand his premises, specifically his second one.Understand and be able to communicate Zaebski’s stance on reasoning. Describe what she thinks about community wisdom and how that relates to beliefs.Lecture 7 (February 17)Know the premises for why we cannot always have reasons for our beliefs. Know what tradition and community wisdom are and how they relate to the argument.Know what happens when a community disagrees or when a minority disagrees with the majority. Understand how a rational solution solves these disagreements. Understand what rational resolutions are and ultimately why giving reasons matter.Lecture 8 (February 24)Know the skeptical challenge, understand its first premise, and know Descartes’ strategy in his argument.Know all the skeptical possibilities and their responses. Focus on the evil demon possibility. Be able to state the second meditation. Know the outstanding problem.Lecture 9 (February 26)Know all the assumptions and the conclusions. Be able to list what it would mean if we rejected the assumptions.Know the big questions, reasons to care, and the alternative explanation.Lecture 10 (March 3)Know the different ways of knowing and the two ways in which we transmit information. Know the reductionism and anti-reductionism points of view.Lecture 11 (March 5)Know the epistemic state of nature and the Fricker/Craig hypothesis.Understand and be able to list the characteristics of a good informant and understand rationality with and without