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