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