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