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A) David Chalmers B) Søren Kierkegaard C) Ludwig Wittgenstein D) John Dewey
A) Jacques Derrida B) Gottlob Frege C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) Jean-Paul Sartre
A) New Age spirituality B) Nihilism C) Structuralism D) Logical positivism
A) Henri Bergson B) David Hume C) Edmund Gettier D) Friedrich Hayek
A) Karl Marx B) Simone Weil C) Michel de Montaigne D) Bertrand Russell
A) Germany B) France C) United Kingdom D) Greece
A) Martin Heidegger B) Ludwig Wittgenstein C) Michel Foucault D) Simone de Beauvoir
A) French B) English C) German D) Latin
A) Phenomenology B) Existentialism C) Analytic philosophy D) Continental philosophy
A) Aesthetics and art B) Ethics and morality C) Language and meaning D) Metaphysics and ontology
A) Gottlob Frege B) Franz Brentano C) Ludwig Wittgenstein D) Bertrand Russell
A) The 'aboutness' or directedness towards an object B) An ethical judgment C) A mental state's intensity D) A physical phenomenon's properties
A) The School of Brentano, including Husserl and Meinong B) Existentialism C) Logical positivism D) Hegelianism
A) W. V. O. Quine B) Alexius Meinong C) Saul Kripke D) Wilfrid Sellars
A) Meinongianism B) Continental idealism C) Analytic realism D) Logical empiricism
A) G. E. Moore B) Kazimierz Twardowski C) Rudolf Carnap D) David Lewis
A) Franz Brentano B) Gottlob Frege C) Alexius Meinong D) Wilfrid Sellars
A) An ethical principle B) A mathematical proof C) The characteristic of mental phenomena to include an object within themselves D) A physical phenomenon's existence
A) Empirical observations B) Real, nonexistent objects C) Physical phenomena D) Logical constructs
A) Intentional in-existence B) Empirical evidence C) Logical consistency D) Physical presence
A) Analytic focuses on technical analysis, while continental is more literary B) Analytic emphasizes ethics, while continental emphasizes logic C) Analytic focuses on metaphysics, while continental focuses on science D) Analytic is concerned with aesthetics, while continental is concerned with mathematics
A) Logicism B) Phenomenology C) Empiricism D) Rationalism
A) Begriffsschrift (Concept-script) B) Philosophie der Arithmetik C) Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (Basic Laws of Arithmetic) D) The Foundations of Arithmetic
A) Empiricism B) Logicism C) Rationalism D) Psychologism
A) Giuseppe Peano B) Gottlob Frege C) Georg Cantor D) Richard Dedekind
A) The analytic-synthetic distinction B) The context principle C) The categorical imperative D) The transcendental deduction
A) Two distinct celestial bodies. B) The planet Venus. C) Two different stars. D) A morning star and an evening star.
A) F. H. Bradley B) Richard Whately C) William Hamilton D) George Boole
A) Hugh MacColl, Charles Sanders Peirce B) Richard Whately, George Boole C) F. H. Bradley, T. H. Green D) Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore
A) Empiricism B) Logical atomism C) Pragmatism D) British idealism
A) G. E. Moore B) Bertrand Russell C) T. H. Green D) F. H. Bradley
A) Hegelianism for being obscure B) Logical atomism C) Pragmatism D) Empiricism
A) Neo-Hegelianism B) Internal relations C) Common sense realism D) Logical holism
A) 1903 B) 1901 C) 1905 D) 1910
A) Disguised definite descriptions B) Abstract concepts C) Demonstratives like this or that D) Universal terms
A) Frege's second puzzle B) The liar paradox C) Zeno's paradoxes D) Descartes' evil demon
A) Scope ambiguity B) Quantifier ambiguity C) Identity theory D) Predicate logic
A) Ludwig Wittgenstein B) Alfred North Whitehead C) John Stuart Mill D) Gottlob Frege
A) Logical atomism B) Process metaphysics C) The theory of types D) Ideal language philosophy
A) Logical Atomism B) The Tractatus C) Process and Reality D) Principia Mathematica
A) Carnap B) Sellars C) Kant D) W. V. O. Quine
A) Russell's theory of descriptions B) Austrian realism C) Sense-data theories D) Cartesian dualism
A) 'Distributive justice' B) 'Negative liberty' C) 'Positive liberty' D) 'Proletarian unfreedom'
A) Epistemic ascent B) Semantic ascent C) Metaphysical ascent D) Logical ascent
A) Process metaphysics. B) Truth table method. C) Theory of types. D) Predicate logic.
A) The principle of sufficient reason B) Justified true belief C) Logical pluralism D) Knowledge about knowledge
A) Carnap B) Sellars C) Russell D) Wittgenstein
A) Henry Sidgwick B) Thomas Nagel C) John Rawls D) Robert Nozick
A) R. M. Hare B) G. E. Moore C) Philippa Foot D) Elizabeth Anscombe
A) The duck-rabbit ambiguous image. B) The color-exclusion problem. C) The linguistic ladder. D) The beetle-in-a-box thought experiment.
A) Liberal egalitarianism B) Ordinary language philosophy C) Legal positivism D) Analytical Marxism
A) Derek Parfit B) David Lewis C) Bernard Williams D) John Locke
A) J.N. Findlay B) John Anderson C) David Lewis D) Karl Popper
A) Focusing on particular instances of knowledge B) Doubting all knowledge claims C) Applying induction to philosophical problems D) Answering 'how do we know?' before 'what do we know?'
A) The deontological revival B) The emotivist shift C) The 'aretaic turn' D) The consequentialist resurgence
A) Error theory B) Universal prescriptivism C) Expressivism D) Emotivism
A) Fred Dretske B) Wittgenstein C) Robert Nozick D) G. E. Moore
A) First phase B) Second phase C) Fourth phase D) Third phase
A) David Lewis B) Karl Popper C) John Anderson D) J.N. Findlay
A) Russell's theory of descriptions B) Cartesian dualism C) Austrian realism D) Sense-data theories
A) They express the totality of actual states of affairs. B) They solve all philosophical problems. C) They provide a comprehensive system of logical atomism. D) All its propositions are ultimately meaningless.
A) Tscha Hung B) Hong Qian C) Zhang Shenfu D) Liang Qichao
A) Eino Kaila B) Ernst Mally C) Axel Hägerström D) Georg Henrik von Wright
A) G. E. Moore B) Nelson Goodman C) Wittgenstein D) Chisholm
A) Willard Van Orman Quine. B) Saul Kripke. C) Ludwig Wittgenstein. D) Bertrand Russell.
A) Marx's historical materialism B) Liberal egalitarian distributive justice C) Free-market libertarianism D) Legal positivism
A) Axel Hägerström B) Eino Kaila C) Georg Henrik von Wright D) Ernst Mally
A) Moritz Schlick B) Rudolf Carnap C) Hans Reichenbach D) Otto Neurath
A) Carnap. B) Saul Kripke. C) Ruth Barcan Marcus. D) Willard Van Orman Quine.
A) Michael Huemer B) Alvin Goldman C) Roderick Chisholm D) Quine
A) Logical positivism B) Metaphysical theorizing C) Empiricism D) Pragmatism
A) World War II B) Cultural Revolution C) Economic reforms of the 1970s D) Communist political pressure
A) 1945 B) 1956 C) 1970s D) 1920
A) Historical materialism B) Animal rights C) Legal positivism D) Free-market libertarianism
A) David Lewis B) Arthur Prior C) Charlie Broad D) John McTaggart
A) Rudolf Carnap B) Hans Reichenbach C) Friedrich Waismann D) Moritz Schlick
A) Ernest Sosa B) Roderick Chisholm C) Alvin Goldman D) Quine
A) Jin Yuelin B) Liang Qichao C) Zhang Shenfu D) Tscha Hung
A) Samuel Alexander B) David Lewis C) J.N. Findlay D) John Anderson
A) A proof system. B) An algorithm. C) A syntax. D) A semantics.
A) Principia Mathematica. B) Process and Reality. C) Logical Atomism. D) The 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'.
A) He fled to the United States B) He published a major work on logical positivism C) He became a professor at Oxford University D) He was murdered by his former student, Hans Nelböck
A) Nelson Goodman B) David Lewis C) Peter Van Inwagen D) Stanisław Leśniewski
A) The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) B) Animal Liberation (1975) C) Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) D) A Theory of Justice (1971)
A) Proletarian unfreedom B) Absence of coercion C) Self-mastery D) Distributive justice
A) Austin's speech acts theory B) Strawson's presupposition of existence C) Descartes' error D) Hägerström's idealism
A) John Rawls B) G. A. Cohen C) Matthew Kramer D) Karl Popper
A) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus B) The Blue Book C) Some Remarks on Logical Form D) Philosophical Investigations
A) Focusing on methodological criteria first B) Applying closure principles to knowledge C) Answering 'what do we know?' before 'how do we know it?' D) Doubting that knowledge exists
A) Synthetic constructs. B) Flexible descriptions. C) Rigid designators. D) Analytic terms.
A) A semantic theory B) A redundancy theory C) An ontological commitment D) A truth-bearer
A) John Wisdom B) Rush Rhees C) Frank Ramsey D) Piero Sraffa
A) The principle of sufficient reason B) The consequence argument C) The liar paradox D) Tense logic
A) Libertarianism B) Incompatibilism C) Determinism D) Perdurantism
A) Coherentism B) Phenomenal conservatism C) Virtue epistemology D) Causal theory of knowledge
A) Predicate logic. B) Quantifier logic. C) Deontic logic. D) Modal logic.
A) Erkenntnis B) Mind C) Analysis D) Philosophical Review
A) John Wisdom B) Piero Sraffa C) Frank Ramsey D) Ludwig Wittgenstein himself
A) Jan Łukasiewicz B) Edmund Gettier C) JC Beall D) Graham Priest
A) Quine B) Ernest Sosa C) Alvin Goldman D) Roderick Chisholm |