Essay instructions: Answer the essay questions as clearly and completely as you can. Stay on topic and make sure everything you say contributes to actually answering the questions. You can use whatever resources you want, but the answer must be your answer. Collective answers are not okay. You can submit your answer to me on D2L through the dropbox. You can submit answers early and I will give you comments and you will have the opportunity to revise and resubmit your answer. You can do this as many times as you like provided you give me enough time to give you feedback. You may submit no more than one unrevised essay per week. See the syllabus for details. The question itself is worth 4 points. The self-evaluation is worth 1 point. You get that point if you give an honest, accurate assessment. This doesnt have to be long, but it should provide some commentary on the quality of your answer and the confidence you have in it. This is your opportunity to let me know what you're having trouble with, which part(s) of your answer you're unsure of, what you would most like feedback on, etc. **** I want you to write 6 essays**** Text: Stephen Law, The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking. I will attach some files too. ***you should write of only those*** Essay 1: 1- Explain the design argument for Gods existence. Then explain how the theory of evolution by natural selection potentially undermines the argument. Finally, explain the lottery fallacy and how a version of the design argument (the anthropic/fine-tuning argument) might be guilty of committing that fallacy. 2- How you would you evaluate your answer? Essay 2: 1- Assume a one-dimensional view of time (no branching time lines, no multiverses, etc.), and suppose I fire up the flux capacitor and travel to the future and follow myself to dinner on February 17, 2016. I see myself order Panang curry (and only Panang curry) from Nois Thai Kitchen. I then return from the future. Now, a year later, February 17, 2016 rolls around and I find myself looking at the menu at Nois Thai Kitchen. It looks as if the following apparently contradictory propositions are both true: 1- I can order Pad Thai. 2- I cant order Pad Thai. Give an argument for why (1) is true. Then give an argument for why (2) is true. Then explain why these two propositions are not necessarily contradictory, and how my freedom to order what I want is consistent with the apparent truth of (2). 2- How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 3: 1-Explain the Euthyphro Dilemma and why it presents a problem for the divine command theorist. Be sure to explain why neither answer the divine command theorist gives seems to be adequate. Then explain how the Euthyphro Dilemma could be tweaked to pose a similar argument against moral relativism. 2-How you would you evaluate your answer? Essay 4: 1- Explain relativism and subjectivism in ethics, then explain how they differ from objectivism in ethics. Do you think morality is objective? Why do you think this? 2- How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 5: 1- Explain how the possibility of philosophical zombies constitutes an argument for dualism. Can you conceive of a philosophical zombie? What does your answer to that question reveal about your view of consciousness? 2-How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 6 1-Is it justifiable to eat meat produced on large scale factory farms? Explain your answer. (Remember that the degree of difficulty matters here. Aim for depth and nuance.) 2-How would you evaluate your answer?

Essay instructions: Answer the essay questions as clearly and completely as you can. Stay on topic and make sure everything you say contributes to actually answering the questions. You can use whatever resources you want, but the answer must be your answer. Collective answers are not okay. You can submit your answer to me on D2L through the dropbox. You can submit answers early and I will give you comments and you will have the opportunity to revise and resubmit your answer. You can do this as many times as you like provided you give me enough time to give you feedback. You may submit no more than one unrevised essay per week. See the syllabus for details. The question itself is worth 4 points. The self-evaluation is worth 1 point. You get that point if you give an honest, accurate assessment. This doesnt have to be long, but it should provide some commentary on the quality of your answer and the confidence you have in it. This is your opportunity to let me know what you're having trouble with, which part(s) of your answer you're unsure of, what you would most like feedback on, etc. **** I want you to write 6 essays**** Text: Stephen Law, The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking. I will attach some files too. ***you should write of only those*** Essay 1: 1- Explain the design argument for Gods existence. Then explain how the theory of evolution by natural selection potentially undermines the argument. Finally, explain the lottery fallacy and how a version of the design argument (the anthropic/fine-tuning argument) might be guilty of committing that fallacy. 2- How you would you evaluate your answer? Essay 2: 1- Assume a one-dimensional view of time (no branching time lines, no multiverses, etc.), and suppose I fire up the flux capacitor and travel to the future and follow myself to dinner on February 17, 2016. I see myself order Panang curry (and only Panang curry) from Nois Thai Kitchen. I then return from the future. Now, a year later, February 17, 2016 rolls around and I find myself looking at the menu at Nois Thai Kitchen. It looks as if the following apparently contradictory propositions are both true: 1- I can order Pad Thai. 2- I cant order Pad Thai. Give an argument for why (1) is true. Then give an argument for why (2) is true. Then explain why these two propositions are not necessarily contradictory, and how my freedom to order what I want is consistent with the apparent truth of (2). 2- How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 3: 1-Explain the Euthyphro Dilemma and why it presents a problem for the divine command theorist. Be sure to explain why neither answer the divine command theorist gives seems to be adequate. Then explain how the Euthyphro Dilemma could be tweaked to pose a similar argument against moral relativism. 2-How you would you evaluate your answer? Essay 4: 1- Explain relativism and subjectivism in ethics, then explain how they differ from objectivism in ethics. Do you think morality is objective? Why do you think this? 2- How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 5: 1- Explain how the possibility of philosophical zombies constitutes an argument for dualism. Can you conceive of a philosophical zombie? What does your answer to that question reveal about your view of consciousness? 2-How would you evaluate your answer? Essay 6 1-Is it justifiable to eat meat produced on large scale factory farms? Explain your answer. (Remember that the degree of difficulty matters here. Aim for depth and nuance.) 2-How would you evaluate your answer?