This course will not be about: which pronouncements have which famous philosophers made?
Also not about: memorizing lots of technical vocabulary
Distinctions, Clarifying Questions/Concepts
Vocabulary that belongs here:
ambiguity, vagueness, analysis/unpacking, stipulation
causal (history/mechanism) vs evidential vs definitional/“what does it consist in?” questions
Evaluating Reasons/Arguments
Vocabulary that belongs here: premises (hidden and explicit), conclusions, assumptions, validity, soundness, question-begging, equivocating
Evaluating Other Proposals (claims or principles, analyses)
Vocabulary that belongs here: counter-examples, thought-experiments
Questions/debates about animals minds, AIs, relations between minds/bodies, connection of all of these to morality.