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The fundamental difference between act and rule utilitarian theories is that they have different criteria of right action and therefore prescribe different moral actions in different situations. A criteri...

1) Divine Command Theory
An action is right or wrong if and only if it is commanded or forbidden by God
The Problem: An Arbitrary GodIf this is the case, then it follows ...

The Knowledge/Mary argument was a thought-experiment coined by Frank Jackson, primarily in an attempt to show that Physicalism was false, and indirectly to support Property Dualism. It goes as follows:P1:...

A deductive argument is one such that if all the premises of the argument were to be believed, then the conclusion would be necessarily true; in other words it would be impossible for the premises to be t...

Explain the claim, then evaluate: Evidence of design in the world such as the complexity of the human eye, or the Fibonacci sequence displayed in nautilus shells.This complexity and intelligence observabl...