The short answer section of the comprehensive exams will be based on this list of terms (which will be reviewed in Senior Seminar).
aesthetics
analytic philosophy
a priori/a posteriori
argumentum ad baculum (fallacy)
argumentum ad hominem (fallacy)
argumentum ad ignorantium (fallacy)
argumentum ad misericordiam (fallacy)
argumentum ad populum (fallacy)
argumentum ad verecundiam (fallacy)
axiology
conceptualism/realism/nominalism
connotation/denotation
cosmological argument for God
deductive argument
deontological ethics
determinism/free will debate
dualism (metaphysical)
egoism/altruism/hedonism (in ethics)
emotivism (in ethics)
empiricism/rationalism
epistemology
existentialism
extrinsic/intrinsic good
fallacy of accident
fallacy of ambiguity
fallacy of amphiboly
fallacy of begging the question
fallacy of equivocation
fallacy of hasty generalization
fallacy of ignorantio elenchi
fallacy of non causa pro causa
fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc
fallacy of tu quoque
hypothetical syllogism
historicism
idealism (metaphysical)
deductive argument
realism/anti-realism debate
linguistic philosophy (normal language philosophy)
logical positivism
materialism (metaphysical)
metaethics
metaphysics
mind/body problem
monism (metaphysical)
moral relativism
necessary condition/sufficient condition
necessity/contingency/
naturalistic fallacy (is/ought distinction)
nihilism
normative ethics
Ockham’s Razor
ontological argument for God
ontology
phenomenology
pragmatism
primary and secondary qualities
principle of sufficient reason
reductivism
reification
skepticism (philosophical)
sound argument
substance and accident
syllogism
tautology
teleological argument for God
teleological ethics
theism/deism/atheism/pantheism
three laws of thought: identity, noncontradiction, excluded middle
truth as: coherence/correspondence/pragmatic
utilitarianism
valid argument