Cumulative level test: Ethics, mind and critical synthesis

Check understanding, separately from reading

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Question 1

A policy that helps many but severely harms a minority cannot be evaluated just by counting beneficiaries. Magnitude and distribution of harms matter.

What information is missing from a bare beneficiary count?The size and distribution of benefits and harmsThe popularity of the policy name

Question 2

A beneficial research outcome does not automatically permit deceiving participants without limits. Respect for persons can constrain the means of acquiring knowledge.

What does a rights-based constraint challenge?The possibility that consequences ever matterThe claim that a good outcome justifies any means

Question 3

Courage differs from recklessness because the courageous person attends to worthwhile ends and proportionate risks rather than seeking danger for itself.

What distinguishes courage from recklessness?Judgment about worthwhile ends and riskThe maximum amount of danger

Question 4

A compatibilist may distinguish acting from one’s considered reasons from acting under coercion even if both have causes. Causation and coercion are different ideas.

Which distinction matters for this compatibilist?Being caused versus having no explanation at allActing from reasons versus being coerced

Question 5

A neural signal accompanies seeing red. That association can guide science while leaving debate about whether subjective experience is fully captured by physical description.

What does the observed correlation establish directly?An association, not a complete metaphysics of experienceThat every philosophical position is settled

Question 6

A thought experiment transfers memories to another body. A psychological view and a bodily view may disagree because they use different criteria of persistence.

Why can the views disagree on the transfer case?One necessarily denies that memories existThey use different criteria for identity

Question 7

Giving every student identical reading materials is equal distribution. Providing accessible formats may better address unequal access to the same learning opportunity.

Why might identical resources be insufficient?Different access needs can prevent equal opportunityEquality always requires identical treatment in every respect

Question 8

Two suspects both had easy access to a room. Access alone does little to distinguish them; a reliable observation specific to one would matter more.

Which evidence best separates the explanations?Evidence equally expected under bothEvidence much more expected under one than the other

Question 9

“This policy reduces suffering, so we should adopt it” relies on a value about suffering and perhaps assumptions about costs and rights. Naming them clarifies the argument.

What hidden premise needs examination?Reducing suffering is a relevant moral reasonSuffering can be counted as a noun

Question 10

Thesis: accessible formats are required for fair opportunity. Objection: resources are limited. Reply: compare feasible accommodations by access gained, cost and competing duties.

What makes the reply stronger than repeating the thesis?It uses more emphatic wordingIt addresses the objection’s actual constraint

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