Question
Jari Kaukua criticized this thought experiment for fallaciously moving from an opaque “epistemic or phenomenological distinction” to a transparent metaphysical distinction. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thought experiment arguing for the existence of the soul. This thought experiment’s central figure is unable to use any form of sense perception but is still able to think about his own existence.
ANSWER: floating man argument [or flying man argument or man suspended in air]
[10e] The floating man thought experiment was proposed by this Islamic philosopher whose works on medicine include The Canon of Medicine and The Book of Healing.
ANSWER: Avicenna [or Ibn Sina]
[10h] Lenn Goodman likened Avicenna’s floating man to the protagonist’s social isolation in a philosophical novel by this thinker titled Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, which medieval schlars translated as Philosophus Autodidactus.
ANSWER: Abu Bakr ibn Tufail [or Abubekar or Abu Ja'far Ebn Tophail or Abubacer Aben Tofail or ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Malik bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysiyy al-ʾAndalusiyy]
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