Philosophy and Literature
Final Exam
Dr. Charles Nussbaum Submitted By: Srijana Timalsina
1. What is reflective equilibrium? Summarize briefly but accurately the thought experiments posed (respectively) by Thomson and Dennett in their articles. Explain how the experiments are designed to affect our intuitions about specific cases and state the principles that you believe must be brought into reflective equilibrium with these intuitions. What is Martha Nussbaum’s perceptive equilibrium?
Answer: In general view, Reflective Equilibrium is a mutual balancing of our set of beliefs that comes from general principles and some judgements. Reflective equilibrium is a major theory in the context of philosophy. Philosophers John Rawl and Nelson Goodman has described the concept of …show more content…
What are the four types and subtypes of solipsism? Which version does Langton adopt in “Love and Solipsism”? What is “reductive desire” and what is “invasive desire”? How does she illustrate her position using Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past? Why does friendship, according to Kant, provide an escape from solipsism? Why does Kant think that friendship and sexual love are incompatible? Why does Langton disagree, yet conclude that the question is ultimately unimportant?
Answer: The four types of Solipsism are:
Metaphysical Solipsism: It is a type of solipsism which states that individual self of an individual is a reality and the external world of that individual has no existence. Further, it claims that ‘I’ as the only existing conscious thing.
Epistemological Solipsism: It states that existence of outside world is just an unusual hypothesis and based on false logics. It believes that ‘I’ am the only existing thing I know is conscious. Methodological Solipsism: It claims that individual self is the starting point of philosophical logics and refers ‘I’ as the only thing with moral
Final Exam
Dr. Charles Nussbaum Submitted By: Srijana Timalsina
1. What is reflective equilibrium? Summarize briefly but accurately the thought experiments posed (respectively) by Thomson and Dennett in their articles. Explain how the experiments are designed to affect our intuitions about specific cases and state the principles that you believe must be brought into reflective equilibrium with these intuitions. What is Martha Nussbaum’s perceptive equilibrium?
Answer: In general view, Reflective Equilibrium is a mutual balancing of our set of beliefs that comes from general principles and some judgements. Reflective equilibrium is a major theory in the context of philosophy. Philosophers John Rawl and Nelson Goodman has described the concept of …show more content…
What are the four types and subtypes of solipsism? Which version does Langton adopt in “Love and Solipsism”? What is “reductive desire” and what is “invasive desire”? How does she illustrate her position using Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past? Why does friendship, according to Kant, provide an escape from solipsism? Why does Kant think that friendship and sexual love are incompatible? Why does Langton disagree, yet conclude that the question is ultimately unimportant?
Answer: The four types of Solipsism are:
Metaphysical Solipsism: It is a type of solipsism which states that individual self of an individual is a reality and the external world of that individual has no existence. Further, it claims that ‘I’ as the only existing conscious thing.
Epistemological Solipsism: It states that existence of outside world is just an unusual hypothesis and based on false logics. It believes that ‘I’ am the only existing thing I know is conscious. Methodological Solipsism: It claims that individual self is the starting point of philosophical logics and refers ‘I’ as the only thing with moral