Free will - Quiz
A) Whether society can exist without laws. B) Whether the universe is infinite in size. C) Whether humans have a biological soul. D) Whether we possess the control over our actions we feel we have.
A) The postmodernist philosophers. B) The early Greek stoics. C) The existentialist thinkers. D) The medieval scholastic scholars.
A) A strong sense of freedom, agency, and self-determination. B) Religious indoctrination in early childhood. C) Scientific proof of quantum mechanics. D) The absence of physical laws in the universe.
A) The theory that actions are random. B) The idea that the mind is separate from the body. C) The belief that the future is already written. D) The principle that no physical event has a cause outside the physical domain.
A) The belief that human behavior is entirely unpredictable. B) The theory that free will is impossible. C) The view that the future is determined entirely by preceding events. D) The idea that physical objects have no internal structure.
A) The debate over whether animals have free will. B) The puzzle of reconciling free will with a deterministic universe. C) The question of why humans fear death. D) The difficulty of defining what an action is.
A) Because it raises the question of how to assign responsibility if actions are caused by past events. B) Because it makes it difficult to decide which laws are ethical. C) Because it implies that all people are inherently evil. D) Because it suggests that moral values change over time.
A) Free will is a total illusion created by the brain. B) Free will is synonymous with the laws of physics. C) Free will only exists in non-deterministic universes. D) Free will holds as long as humans are not externally constrained or coerced.
A) By separating physical freedom from spiritual freedom. B) By distinguishing between conscious and subconscious choices. C) By separating freedom of will from freedom of action. D) By differentiating between moral and legal responsibility.
A) The ability to make rational decisions. B) The power to alter the laws of physics. C) The capacity to predict the future. D) The freedom from all biological needs.
A) The belief that the government should have no control over citizens. B) The idea that all decisions are made randomly. C) The form of incompatibilism which posits that determinism is false and free will is possible. D) A theory that humans are entirely controlled by their environment.
A) It relies too heavily on modern physics. B) It requires that all actions be deterministic. C) It is difficult to assign responsibility for indeterministic choices. D) It cannot explain the existence of the physical world.
A) Mechanical and digital determinism. B) Logical and theological determinism. C) Environmental and social determinism. D) Economic and political determinism.
A) Biological, cultural, and psychological determinism. B) Historical, geographical, and linguistic determinism. C) Atomic, subatomic, and molecular determinism. D) Physical, chemical, and nuclear determinism.
A) The feeling of freedom is irrelevant to human life. B) The feeling of freedom is the only reality. C) The feeling that we are free to choose is an illusion. D) The feeling of freedom is biologically proven.
A) Deliberation. B) Advice. C) Prohibition. D) Astrological destiny.
A) Classical compatibilism. B) Hard determinism. C) Illusionism. D) Metaphysical libertarianism.
A) Epicurus B) Socrates C) Aristotle D) Plato
A) 4th century BCE B) 2nd century BCE C) 1st century CE D) 3rd century CE
A) voluntas libera B) liberum arbitrium C) libertas voluntatis D) arbitrium liberum
A) 4th century BCE B) 3rd century CE C) 1st century CE D) 4th century CE
A) Nothing hindering us B) Causal indetermination C) Divine intervention D) Biological necessity
A) Predestination B) Fixed natural laws C) Causal indetermination D) Lack of external hindrances
A) Enlightenment philosophy B) Ancient Greek philosophy C) Modern empiricism D) Christian philosophy
A) No B) Only incompatibilists did C) Yes D) Only compatibilists did
A) d'Holbach B) Peter van Inwagen C) Thomas Reid D) Robert Kane
A) Daniel Dennett B) Thomas Reid C) Carl Ginet D) d'Holbach
A) Cogito ergo sum B) A priori C) Causa sui D) Tabula rasa
A) Alex Rosenberg B) David Lewis C) Daniel Dennett D) Carl Ginet
A) Position 9 B) Position 3 C) Position 2 D) Position 1
A) Relativity theory B) Information theory C) String theory D) Chaos theory
A) The Prisoner's Dilemma. B) Laplace's demon. C) The Chinese Room. D) Schrodinger's cat.
A) The steady flow of time B) The predictability of gravitational forces C) The biological evolution of species D) Probabilistic subatomic particle behavior
A) Pre-determined divine causality B) Agent/substance-caused events C) Non-deterministically caused events D) Uncaused events
A) A physical reflex B) A determined outcome C) A volition D) An external stimulation
A) Caused by specific intentions B) Determined by physical laws C) Self-generating D) Determined by beliefs
A) Causal determinism B) Physicalism C) Agent causation theory D) Panpsychism
A) Physicalist models B) Functionalist models C) Dualist models D) Idealist models
A) Deliberative indeterminism B) Substantive volitionism C) Centred accounts D) Efforts of will theory
A) C.S. Lewis B) Daniel Dennett C) Niels Bohr D) Robert Kane
A) Quantum indeterminacy B) Relativity C) Thermodynamics D) Electromagnetism
A) Logical positivism B) Material monism C) Substance dualism D) Empirical physicalism
A) Substance monism B) Compatibilist voluntarism C) Physicalist determinism D) Interactionalist dualism
A) Galen Strawson B) Derk Pereboom C) Immanuel Kant D) John Locke
A) Compatibilism B) Soft determinism C) Classical libertarianism D) Hard determinism
A) Incompatibilism B) Hard incompatibilism C) Pessimism D) Compatibilism
A) Classical libertarianism B) Pessimism C) Soft determinism D) Hard incompatibilism
A) Galen Strawson B) Classical libertarians C) The author of the text D) Derk Pereboom
A) As scientific terms B) Only in theological contexts C) Interchangeably D) As opposites
A) Often self-caused. B) Often uncaused. C) Both uncaused and self-caused. D) Neither uncaused nor self-caused.
A) Omniscience B) Logical determinism C) Causal determinism D) Predeterminism
A) Libertarianism B) Theological indeterminism C) Predeterminism D) Logical determinism
A) Predestination B) Biological determinism C) Logical determinism D) Fatalism
A) Taoists B) Calvinists C) Shintoists D) Buddhists
A) Omniscience B) Biological determinism C) Fatalism D) Logical determinism
A) Theological determinism B) Hard determinism C) Fatalistic determinism D) Determinateness
A) Socrates. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Boethius. D) Karl Marx.
A) The mind–body problem B) The hard problem of logic C) The problem of personal identity D) The problem of induction
A) Plato. B) Chrysippus. C) Marcus Aurelius. D) Epicurus.
A) Newcomb's Paradox B) The Physical Mind C) Freedom Evolves D) Elbow Room
A) Past decisions B) Expectations C) The absolute future D) Divine destiny
A) Sociology B) Neurological sciences C) Mathematics D) Theoretical physics
A) Adrenaline B) Serotonin C) Dopamine D) Cortisol
A) Classical incompatibilism B) Identity dualism C) Theological determinism D) Cognitive naturalism
A) Governing photosynthesis. B) Creating biological cells. C) Storing mechanical energy. D) Choosing freely.
A) Newer compatibilist concepts. B) Mathematical nihilism. C) Purely random chance theories. D) Strictly evolutionist mandates.
A) Quantum mechanics exclusively. B) Darwinism. C) Extreme reductionism. D) Classical Newtonian gravity.
A) Chemical reactions. B) Biological impulses. C) Practical reasons. D) Social conditioning.
A) In most religions. B) Only in scientific journals. C) Exclusively in secular philosophy. D) Only in ancient paganism.
A) Denying the existence of the will B) Loving one's fate C) Embracing pure indeterminism D) Rejecting all forms of destiny
A) Amor fati B) Velleity C) Noumenon D) Principle of sufficient reason
A) Chrysippus B) Rudolf Steiner C) Arthur Schopenhauer D) William James
A) Meliorism B) Stoicism C) Incompatibilism D) Pragmatism
A) External influences B) Thoughts C) Social punishment D) Scientific data
A) Imagination B) Motive C) Mobile D) Moral
A) Indeterminism B) Determinism C) Moral imagination D) Incompatibilism
A) Introspection B) Stoicism C) Meliorism D) Incompatibilism
A) 1739 B) 1750 C) 1720 D) 1780
A) An empirical certainty B) A mental construct C) A divine order D) A physical law of nature
A) Walter Freeman B) John Locke C) Immanuel Kant D) David Hume
A) Judgments of material science B) Moral judgments C) Judgments of sensory perception D) Judgments of fact
A) Simple neural stimulus-response B) Self-organizing dynamics C) Fixed material determination D) The abandonment of moral judgment
A) Thirteenth B) Fifteenth C) Fourteenth D) Twelfth
A) Ignore their own intellect B) Reject all authority C) Avoid all suffering D) Seek certain goals
A) Socratic method B) Stoic indifference C) Aristotelian telos D) Platonic idealism
A) Four B) Three C) Five D) Six
A) Habit B) Memory C) Judgment D) Passion
A) God B) The intellect C) The will itself D) The human soul
A) Idappaccayatā B) Pubbekatahetuvada C) Mūlamadhyamakakārikā D) Pratītyasamutpāda
A) Absolute freedom B) Ignorance C) A total agent D) Divine destiny
A) The Cārvākans B) The Buddha C) Nagarjuna D) The Samkhyists
A) The Jain canons B) Mūlamadhyamakakārikā C) The Nyaya Sutras D) The Vedic scriptures
A) John Calvin B) Thomas Aquinas C) Jacobus Arminius D) Luis de Molina
A) Jacobus Arminius B) John Calvin C) Augustine of Hippo D) Martin Luther
A) Peter B) James C) Paul D) John
A) Molinism B) Thomism C) Arminianism D) Calvinism
A) Vedanta B) Yoga C) Nyaya D) Samkhya
A) Kaivalya B) Ishvara C) Bechirah chofshit D) Mitzvot
A) Qadar B) Adl C) Jabr D) Fitra
A) Mu'tazila B) Ash'ari C) Shia D) Sufi |
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