Exam 2: Human Nature

An inference to the best explanation is a(n)

In behaviorism,our consciousness seems to have disappeared.

What philosopher argued that our individual identity depends on relationships with others,such that who we are cannot be separated from our relationship with others?

The view that humans are whatever they make themselves is termed

Behaviorism began as a school of ____________________ that restricted the study of humans to what could be observed.

An argument whose conclusion necessarily has to be true if the premises are true is

Aristotle held that all living things have a purpose.

All that a valid deductive argument guarantees is that if its premises are true,then the conclusion has to be ____.

Existentialism emphasizes the free and conscious individual.

J.J.C.Smart argued that states of consciousness are identical with states of the brain.

____________________ argued that a person's culture is the mirror through which society shows her who and what she is.

According to Plato,humans can control their appetites and aggressive impulses through the use of their ____________________.

Freud wrote Civilization and Its Discontents.

Bad faith,according to Jean-Paul Sartre,is deceiving ourselves by pretending we are free.

One version of ____________________ is the identity theory of the mind.

____________________ is the view that humans are made up of two substances.

What is "psychological egoism"? Do you find it a compelling view of human nature? Why,or why not?

The philosopher who believed that who you are depends on your relationships to others is:

An inference to the best explanation can be

The view that processes such as thought and life are really nothing more than physical and chemical processes is called ____________________.