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PHIL 2 Puzzles and Paradoxes Fall 2020

Week 5 Quiz

In a concise—1-page—yet nevertheless coherent and well-structured essay, respond to the following prompt:

Present and briefly discuss Baker’s distinction between having a property derivatively and having a property nonderivatively. Illustrate the distinction with an original example.

Week 5: Discussion Board Assignment Section 8

Consider these three views on the existence of ordinary objects/things: eliminativism, reductionism (3D and 4D), and nonreductionism. Consider the question of the existence of human beings. We can take an eliminativist, reductionist, and nonreductionist view to the existence of human beings as well. Which position do you favor for ordinary objects, which for human beings, and why do you favor these positions? Be sure to give reasons for why you believe what you believe.

In your response to others, please support or criticize the other person’s views. Do not merely repeat your original prompt response or their prompt response in these posts: add new material. Think critically through what your fellow students are writing.