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