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PhilosophyQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every VIC Philosophy syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Unit 3: Minds, bodies and persons
- logical (philosophical) behaviourism as a theory of mind, including Ryle's category mistake and its objections0Q&A pairs
- the bodily and brain criteria of personal identity, including their objections from teleportation and brain swaps0Q&A pairs
- the Chinese Room argument against strong AI and functionalism, including Searle's syntax and semantics distinction0Q&A pairs
- substance dualism and the mind-body problem, including Descartes' arguments and the problem of interaction0Q&A pairs
- Hume's bundle theory and the Buddhist no-self doctrine, including the argument from introspection and its objections0Q&A pairs
- idealism as a monist response to the mind-body problem, including Berkeley's argument and its objections0Q&A pairs
- Parfit's psychological continuity theory, the fission problem, and the claim that identity is not what matters0Q&A pairs
- personal identity over time, Locke's memory or consciousness criterion, and its leading objections2Q&A pairs
- physicalist theories of mind including identity theory and functionalism, and their objections3Q&A pairs
- property dualism and epiphenomenalism as responses to the mind-body problem, including the threat to mental causation1Q&A pairs
- qualia and the case against physicalism, including Jackson's knowledge argument and Nagel's bat0Q&A pairs
- the problem of other minds, including the argument from analogy and its objections0Q&A pairs
Unit 4: The good life
- Aristotle's eudaimonist conception of the good life: function, virtue, the mean and external goods0Q&A pairs
- desire-satisfaction and objective list theories of wellbeing, including their advantages over hedonism and their objections0Q&A pairs
- Epicurean and Stoic conceptions of the good life, including tranquillity, pleasure and the role of virtue0Q&A pairs
- hedonism and well-being: Mill's qualitative utilitarianism and the higher and lower pleasures distinction0Q&A pairs
- theories of well-being: hedonism, desire-satisfaction and objective list, and Nozick's experience machine0Q&A pairs
- living the good life in the twenty-first century: technology, human enhancement and contemporary debates0Q&A pairs
- the relationship between the good life and morality, including whether moral goodness is necessary for the good life0Q&A pairs