A) 1596 B) 1700 C) 1543 D) 1620
A) Italian B) English C) German D) French
A) Master of Logic B) Father of Modern Philosophy C) The Great Thinker D) Medieval Scholar
A) Philosophy B) Chemistry C) Physics D) Biology
A) English B) French C) Spanish D) Latin
A) Aesthetics B) Epistemology C) Ethics D) Metaphysics
A) France B) England C) Germany D) Netherlands
A) Body emerges from the mind B) Mind emerges from the body C) Mind and body are distinct substances D) Mind and body are identical
A) 1600 B) 1650 C) 1750 D) 1700
A) Meditations on First Philosophy B) Principles of Philosophy C) Discourse on the Method D) The Passions of the Soul
A) A minor contributor B) A seminal figure C) An opponent D) An observer
A) Summum bonum est veritas B) "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am) C) Ego sum res cogitans D) Deus est causa sui
A) Pierre de Fermat B) Isaac Newton C) René Descartes D) Blaise Pascal
A) Rennes, France B) Paris, France C) Breda, Netherlands D) La Haye en Touraine, France
A) British Navy B) French Royal Army C) Protestant Dutch States Army D) Spanish Armada
A) Rennes, France B) Neuburg an der Donau C) Paris, France D) Breda, Netherlands
A) 1620 B) 1622 C) 1618 D) 1630
A) London B) Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto C) Rome D) Athens
A) 1627 B) 1625 C) 1623 D) 1630
A) Cardinal Bérulle B) Girard Desargues C) Nicolas de Villiers D) Cardinal Richelieu
A) Blaise Pascal B) Pierre de Fermat C) Girard Desargues D) Isaac Newton
A) Blaise Pascal B) Pierre Gassendi C) René Girard D) Nicolas de Villiers, sieur de Chandoux
A) 1650 B) 1628 C) 1641 D) 1633
A) "Cartesian" B) "René" C) "Poitevin" D) "Descartes"
A) Martin Hortensius B) Pierre de Fermat C) Jacobus Golius D) Adriaan Metius
A) Franeker B) Deventer C) Amsterdam D) Leiden
A) Francine B) Elisabeth C) Sophia D) Helena
A) 10 years old B) 5 years old C) 7 years old D) 3 years old
A) Leiden B) Egmond-Binnen C) Amsterdam D) Deventer
A) Anthony Studler van Zurck B) Pierre de Fermat C) Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop D) Alfonso Polloti
A) Jacobus Golius B) Martin Hortensius C) Pierre de Fermat D) Abbot Claude Picot
A) Studying mathematics B) The search for first causes C) Engaging in philosophy D) Exploring nature
A) Pierre de Fermat B) Anthony Studler van Zurck C) Martin Hortensius D) Adriaan Metius
A) Political revolution B) Industrial revolution C) Anthropocentric revolution D) Scientific revolution
A) 'Regulae ad directionem ingenii' B) 'La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle' C) 'De solidorum elementis' D) 'Musicae Compendium'
A) 'De solidorum elementis' B) 'Le Monde (The World)' C) 'Regulae ad directionem ingenii' D) 'La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle'
A) Pineal gland B) Thyroid gland C) Adrenal gland D) Hypothalamus
A) 1664 B) 1641 C) 1657 D) 1676
A) 'Principia philosophiae' B) 'Meditationes de prima philosophia' C) 'Discours de la méthode' D) 'La description du corps humain'
A) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz B) René Descartes himself C) Immanuel Kant D) John Locke
A) Monadology B) Cartesian dualism C) Aristotelian dualism D) Empiricist dualism
A) Human desire B) Chemical reactions C) Random chance D) God's will
A) 1913 B) 1596 C) 1996 D) 1650
A) Immanuel Kant B) Martin Heidegger C) John Locke D) David Hume
A) 'La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle' B) 'Le Monde (The World)' C) 'L'Homme (Man)' D) 'Discours de la méthode'
A) Time B) Space C) Light D) Motion
A) The Church B) God C) Philosophers D) Human beings
A) Blood cells B) Animal spirits C) Electric currents D) Nerve impulses
A) Pneumonia. B) Tuberculosis. C) Peripneumonia. D) Influenza.
A) Centrifugal force. B) Magnetism. C) Friction. D) Gravity.
A) 'Principia philosophiae' B) 'La description du corps humain' C) 'Les passions de l'âme' D) 'Meditationes de prima philosophia'
A) Project Gutenberg B) LibriVox C) EarlyModernTexts.com D) Internet Archive
A) Standard Ebooks B) Internet Archive C) Project Gutenberg D) EarlyModernTexts.com
A) Pascal B) Leibniz C) Martin Schoock D) Spinoza
A) Project Gutenberg B) International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) C) LibriVox D) EarlyModernTexts.com
A) 'Discours de la méthode' B) 'Le Monde (The World)' C) 'La Géométrie' D) 'Meditationes de prima philosophia'
A) Automatic bodily reactions to external events B) Voluntary muscle control C) Dream interpretation D) Spiritual experiences
A) Internet Archive B) Standard Ebooks C) Project Gutenberg D) EarlyModernTexts.com
A) 'Le Monde (The World)' B) 'La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle' C) 'Regulae ad directionem ingenii' D) 'Musicae Compendium'
A) 1000 B) 700 C) 500 D) 300
A) Descartes's dualism supported the distinction by expelling the final cause from the physical universe B) He rejected both as incorrect C) He believed they were fundamentally the same D) He argued for a synthesis of both
A) 1671 B) 1663 C) 1649 D) 1650
A) A Torricellian mercury barometer. B) A telescope. C) A thermometer. D) A microscope.
A) Unnecessary B) Perfectly complete C) Irrelevant D) Incomplete
A) Aristotelian logic B) Hyperbolic or metaphysical doubt C) Inductive reasoning D) Empirical observation
A) 'La description du corps humain' B) 'Responsiones Renati Des Cartes... (Conversation with Burman)' C) 'Correspondance' D) 'Les passions de l'âme'
A) Anthony Gottlieb B) Gijsbert Voet (Voetius) C) René Descartes D) John Cottingham
A) He studied them scientifically only B) He ignored them C) He defended them D) He decried them
A) He wrote a treatise on grief B) He wept upon her death C) He remained indifferent D) He moved away immediately
A) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz B) Pierre de Fermat C) Frans van Schooten D) Isaac Newton
A) Eight B) Six C) Four D) Five
A) The soul does not exist. B) The soul should be subject to scientific investigation. C) The soul can only be understood through religious means. D) The soul is beyond scientific understanding.
A) The second Meditation B) The fourth Meditation C) The fifth Meditation D) The first Meditation
A) John Locke B) Thomas Hobbes C) Immanuel Kant D) David Hume
A) 200 B) 100 C) 150 D) 250
A) 30 degrees. B) 50 degrees. C) 60 degrees. D) 42 degrees.
A) Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition B) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy C) Catholic Encyclopedia D) MacTutor
A) 1618 B) 1637 C) 1644 D) 1666
A) The World B) Principia Philosophiae C) Meditations on First Philosophy D) Discourse on Method
A) Deduction B) Induction C) Empirical observation D) Aristotelian logic
A) Each can exist apart from the other B) They are both extended things C) They share a common property D) They cannot interact
A) The teleological argument B) The ontological argument C) The trademark argument D) The cosmological argument
A) Because it is too complex. B) Because it is unreliable. C) Because it relies on sensory experiences. D) Because it requires empirical evidence.
A) 'Meditationes de prima philosophia' B) 'Principia philosophiae' C) 'Discours de la méthode' D) 'La Géométrie' |