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