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