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Expected Utility and the Pseudoscience of Death: An Address of Two Essay Questions
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A 6 page paper, two pages of which are devoted to determining greater utility in a game of chance involving different colored marbles and three pages of which are devoted to analyzing the article “Overcoming the Power of Death” by Parker Scudder II in terms of its logic. The author uses the criteria outlined in Daisie and Michael Radner’s book “Science and Unreason” to expose Scudder’s article as pseudoscience. No additional sources are listed.
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Expressivism in Marxist Theories
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5 pages in length. Marxist theories regarding expressivism overflow into social and political theory and philosophy. While expressivism can be considered a freedom that we can all choose to enjoy, that expressivism can overrun its boundaries and turn into something negative, as though it had a life of its own. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Externalism And Self-Knowledge
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5 pages in length. If externalist theories of content are true, it seems as if one could be wrong about what one comes to believe. Upon examining externalist theories and methods some philosophers use to pose the externalist threat to self knowledge, as well as responses to them which claim that self-knowledge and externalism are compatible, the student will gain a significantly better understanding of how the latter is more convincing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Faith
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A 5 page paper which examines personal aspects and perspectives concerning faith. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Faith, Religious Experience And Mysticism
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This 14 page paper discusses the relationships between and among faith, religious experience and mysticism. The essay begins by defining and describing each concept and at one point proposes that an individual must have faith to have faith. The writer then points to the relationships, explaining how each relates to the other. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Faith: St. Augustine and Kierkegaard
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A 7 page paper which compares and contrasts how St. Augustine, in "Confessions," and Kierkegaard, in "Fear and Trembling," regard faith. No additional sources cited.
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Fallacies & Critical Thinking
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A 6 page research paper that addresses fallacies and their relationship to critical thinking. Logical fallacies are errors in thinking that can be found in argumentative language (Haskins, 2005). This examination of several categories of fallacies, first of all, defines the fallacy and discusses its significant to the critical thinking process, as well as its general application to the decision making process. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Fallacies, Critical Thinking And Decision Making
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This 6 page paper begins with an overview of fallacious arguments, including explanations of deductive and inductive reasoning and common fallacies in syllogism and rhetoric. The writer then provides an example of three common fallacies in financial analysis methods. The writer then discusses how and why critical thinking processes must be used when making decisions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Fallibilist Foundationalism: Valid Epistemological Point Of View
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7 pages in length. The philosophical quest to determine how and why man understands himself and the world around him has been explored from myriad perspectives, with two primary components serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Man's beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature. When examining the extent to which fallibilist foundationalism can be considered a valid epistemological point of view, one can readily attribute the element of perception to its validity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Fatalism
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This 5 page paper explores this subject through Richard Taylor's eyes. Fatalism and determinism are compared. The paper examines Taylor's position on fate and concludes that it is reasonable despite some seeming inconsistencies. The film Sliding Doors is used as an analogy. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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