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CGSC 281/PHIL 181: Phil&Sci Human Nature Gendler/Yale University, Spring 2011

Second Directed Exercise

Due: 25th January (10am)

• Your second directed exercise is due by 10am on Tuesday, January 25th • Your assignment should be submitted to our Classes V*2 site under “Assignments” as an

attached document.

• As you know from the syllabus, because this is a large lecture class, it is important to have explicit and uniform policies. Among those policies is the following: • Directed exercises will be marked down 1 point for each 24 hours that they are late

(rounded up to the nearest 24 hours).

The second exercise has three parts, with point values indicated below:

For this week’s reading, we were presented with a number of ways of describing the sorts of conflicted experiences that Plato gives voice to in his discussion of Leontius (Republic 439e-440a, Grube/Reeve p. 115), and that Kahneman and others identify in their discussions of dual-processing. Observe your actions for a day with this terminology in mind. For each of the following distinctions, describe an example from your own behavior using the vocabulary provided. (Each description should be 2-3 sentences.) (1) A case involving a conflict among Reason, Spirit and Appetite. (This might be a

three-way conflict, or a case where two of the forces are aligned against the third.) (1 point)

(2) A case involving a conflict between System I and System II. (1 point)

(3) A case involving a conflict between Belief and Alief. (1 point)