You should learn the following terms. I'd elaborate, but I have a paper to write and my stomach is feeling really sick right now. all these will be in your course, and you can probably find info on them through www.Wikipedia.org or you can google it:

Terms:

- A Priori

- A Posteriori

- Necessary Contingent

- Philistine

Logical Fallacies:

- Strawman fallacy

- Begging the question

- Modus ponens

- Modus Tollens

- Ad Hominum

- Appeal to Authority

- (false) Dilema arguments

- Irrelevant reason

- Appeal to Ignorance

Nature of Knowledge:

- Empiricism

- Rationalism

- Capacity Knowledge

- Propositional Knowledge

- Aristotelian Physics

- Correspondance Theory

- Coherence Theory

- Objective Theory

- Gettier Paradox

- Teleology

- Analytic statements

- Synthetic Statements (you will be required to understand the analytic-synthetic distinctions)

Nature of Mind:

- Descartes theory of mind-body dualism (and dualistic interactionism)

- Solipsism

- Occasionalism

- Leibniz theory of mind-body paralelysm

- epiphenominalism

- Idealism

- Eliminative Materialism

- Identity Theory

- Behaviorism

- Methodological and Philisophical Behaviorism


Ethics

- Emotivism

- Ethical Nonobjectivism

- Ethical Intuitionism

- Utilitarianism

- Cultural relativism

- Normative Ethical Theories

- Meta-ethical Theories

- Empiracle Subjectionist Theories

- Non-Cognitivist Theories

- Deontology (branch of normative ethical theory)

- Ethical Egoism