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Question #1

The neutrino has no mass, no electrical charge, and no magnetic field.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #2

The view that there are many realities and that realities are constructed by the many languages of the cultures and subcultures is called

A Realism

B Pragmatism

C Postmodernism

D Existentialism

Question #3

Epistemology literally means

A The study of knowledge

B The study of freedom

C The study of being

D The study of morality

Question #4

What philosopher argued that humans are made up of dual substances, a material body and an immaterial mind?

A Jean-Paul Sartre

B Thomas Hobbes

C Aristotle

D Rene Descartes

Question #5

Who wrote, “The aim of phenomenology is described as the study of experiences with a view to bringing out their essences, their underlying reason”?

A Hilary Putnam

B Jean Grimshaw

C Maurice Merleau-Ponty

D Edmund Husserl

Question #6

The attribution of human thoughts and emotions onto the nonhuman universe is the fallacy of

A Equivocation

B Composition

C Wishful thinking

D Anthropomorphism

Question #7

An unusual aspect of consciousness is that the objects of which one is conscious need not exist. This feature of consciousness is called

A objectivity

B spatiality

C intensionality

D subjectivity

Question #8

Thomas Hobbes endorses

A Compatibilism

B Existentialism

C Determinism

D Libertarianism

Question #9

Newton believed that all material bodies in the universe were governed by universal laws of nature

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #10

What contemporary Canadian philosopher argues that all the things in the universe are thoughts in the mind of God

A F. H. Bradley

B John Leslie

C Josiah Royce

D John Rawls

Question #11

Husserl believed that Europe had inherited rationality from the Greeks.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #12

An argument that is supposed to show that its conclusion is probably true if its premises are true is a(n)

A Sound argument

B Deductive argument

C Valid argument

D Inductive argument

Question #13

What subfield of philosophy is concerned with moral values and principles?

A Metaphysics

B Theology

C Ethics

D Epistemology

Question #14

Dewey believed that philosophy arose out of people’s struggles to deal with social and political problems.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #15

Hobbes believed there was more to the Universe than measurable matter.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #16

What philosopher argued that reality can be explained in terms of the smallest possible pieces of matter he called atoms?

A Plato

B Aristotle

C Democritus

D Augustine

Question #17

St. Augustine found it difficult to believe that spirits were real.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #18

What French philosopher argues that the scientist’s objective time is just a conceptual abstraction, a construct of the mind?

A Immanuel Kant

B Henri Bergson

C J.J.C Smart

D Michel Foucault

Question #19

The statement, “All bachelors are unmarried” is a(n)

A meaningless statement

B synthetic statement

C empirical statement

D analytical statement

Question #20

Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #21

Which view is the heir of pragmatism and idealism?

A Antirealism

B Materialism

C Irrealism

D Atheism

Question #22

In assessing an argument we need only to look at its logical form

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #23

Existentialism emphasizes the free and conscious individual.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #24

Augustine did not believe that human beings have a will.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #25

A.J. Ayer believed that there were only two meaningful kinds of statements:

A Relations of ideas and statements of fact

B Relations of ideas and tautologies

C Empirical hypotheses and statements of fact

D Relations of fact and statements of ideas

Question #26

A tautological statement can never possibly be false

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #27

Freud wrote Civilization and Its Discontents

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #28

The Hindu term, atman, can best be defined as the supreme being or ultimate reality

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #29

Based on his experience in a Nazi prison camp, what philosopher argued that human beings are ultimately free and that each of us has the freedom to be whoever we choose to be?

A Gail Stenstad

B Victor Frankl

C Paul Henri d’Holbach

D John Stuart Mill

Question #30

Charles S. Pierce was concerned with the psychological effects of ideas.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #31

Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #32

The Charvaka philosophers were spiritualists.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #33

What subfield of philosophy is concerned with the ultimate characteristics of reality or existence?

A Epistomology

B Axiology

C Metaphysics

D Ethics

Question #34

In behaviorism, our consciousness seems to have disappeared.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #35

The Buddhist term, maya, refers to the world of illusion

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #36

Plato believed that the forms were temporary and underwent a constant process of change.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #37

The view of philosophy as the activity of examining our assumptions and beliefs about ourselves and the universe around us was expressed by

A Perictione

B Buddha

C Aristotle

D Plato

Question #38

J.J.C. Smart argued that states of consciousness are identical with states of the brain.

A TRUE

B FALSE

Question #39

Rachels says that finding satisfaction in helping others is not

A Moral

B Selfishness

C Karmic

D Worthwhile

Question #40

All that a valid deductive argument guarantees is that if its premises are true, then the conclusion has to be

A TRUE

B FALSE

C Sound

D Likely

Question #41

According to whom does philosophical knowledge free us from the cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth?

A Buddha

B Krishna

C Aristotle

D Plato

Question #42

Hobbes believed that our mental states are states of our brain.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #43

What philosopher wrote: “Everyone is selfish; everyone is doing what he believes will make him happier?”

A Mahatma Gandhi

B Harry Browne

C Perictione

D James Rachels

Question #44

Which pragmatist was concerned with the logical implications of ideas?

A Elmer Sprague

B C.S. Pierce

C John Dewey

D William James

Question #45

Karma means literally

A Rightness

B Movement

C Fate

D Action

Question #46

What philosopher argued that service toward others is our primary moral duty?

A Aristotle

B Plato

C Harry Browne

D Mahatma Gandhi

Question #47

Bad faith, according to Jean-Paul Sartre, is deceiving ourselves in order to avoid who we truly are.

A FALSE

B TRUE

Question #48

J.J.C. Smart endorsed what theory of human nature?

A The traditional view

B Coextension theory

C The existentialist view

D Identity theory

Question #49

The philosophical view that a real world exists independently of our language, our thoughts, our perceptions, and our beliefs is called

A Antirealism

B Postmodernism

C Realism

D Pragmatism

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