A) John Dewey B) Søren Kierkegaard C) David Chalmers D) Ludwig Wittgenstein
A) Jacques Derrida B) Jean-Paul Sartre C) Gottlob Frege D) Friedrich Nietzsche
A) Nihilism B) Structuralism C) Logical positivism D) New Age spirituality
A) Henri Bergson B) David Hume C) Edmund Gettier D) Friedrich Hayek
A) Simone Weil B) Karl Marx C) Bertrand Russell D) Michel de Montaigne
A) Germany B) United Kingdom C) France D) Greece
A) Simone de Beauvoir B) Ludwig Wittgenstein C) Martin Heidegger D) Michel Foucault
A) English B) German C) French D) Latin
A) Existentialism B) Analytic philosophy C) Phenomenology D) Continental philosophy
A) Metaphysics and ontology B) Language and meaning C) Ethics and morality D) Aesthetics and art
A) Bertrand Russell B) Gottlob Frege C) Franz Brentano D) Ludwig Wittgenstein
A) The 'aboutness' or directedness towards an object B) An ethical judgment C) A mental state's intensity D) A physical phenomenon's properties
A) Hegelianism B) Logical positivism C) The School of Brentano, including Husserl and Meinong D) Existentialism
A) Wilfrid Sellars B) W. V. O. Quine C) Alexius Meinong D) Saul Kripke
A) Analytic realism B) Meinongianism C) Continental idealism D) Logical empiricism
A) David Lewis B) G. E. Moore C) Rudolf Carnap D) Kazimierz Twardowski
A) Alexius Meinong B) Wilfrid Sellars C) Franz Brentano D) Gottlob Frege
A) A physical phenomenon's existence B) An ethical principle C) A mathematical proof D) The characteristic of mental phenomena to include an object within themselves
A) Logical constructs B) Empirical observations C) Physical phenomena D) Real, nonexistent objects
A) Logical consistency B) Empirical evidence C) Intentional in-existence D) Physical presence
A) Analytic emphasizes ethics, while continental emphasizes logic B) Analytic focuses on technical analysis, while continental is more literary C) Analytic focuses on metaphysics, while continental focuses on science D) Analytic is concerned with aesthetics, while continental is concerned with mathematics
A) Phenomenology B) Logicism C) Empiricism D) Rationalism
A) Philosophie der Arithmetik B) Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (Basic Laws of Arithmetic) C) The Foundations of Arithmetic D) Begriffsschrift (Concept-script)
A) Logicism B) Empiricism C) Psychologism D) Rationalism
A) Giuseppe Peano B) Richard Dedekind C) Gottlob Frege D) Georg Cantor
A) The context principle B) The categorical imperative C) The analytic-synthetic distinction D) The transcendental deduction
A) Two distinct celestial bodies. B) The planet Venus. C) A morning star and an evening star. D) Two different stars.
A) Richard Whately B) George Boole C) William Hamilton D) F. H. Bradley
A) Hugh MacColl, Charles Sanders Peirce B) F. H. Bradley, T. H. Green C) Richard Whately, George Boole D) Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore
A) Empiricism B) Pragmatism C) British idealism D) Logical atomism
A) T. H. Green B) G. E. Moore C) F. H. Bradley D) Bertrand Russell
A) Hegelianism for being obscure B) Pragmatism C) Empiricism D) Logical atomism
A) Internal relations B) Logical holism C) Neo-Hegelianism D) Common sense realism
A) 1901 B) 1905 C) 1910 D) 1903
A) Disguised definite descriptions B) Universal terms C) Abstract concepts D) Demonstratives like this or that
A) The liar paradox B) Descartes' evil demon C) Zeno's paradoxes D) Frege's second puzzle
A) Scope ambiguity B) Quantifier ambiguity C) Identity theory D) Predicate logic
A) Alfred North Whitehead B) John Stuart Mill C) Gottlob Frege D) Ludwig Wittgenstein
A) Ideal language philosophy B) Logical atomism C) Process metaphysics D) The theory of types
A) Logical Atomism B) The Tractatus C) Principia Mathematica D) Process and Reality
A) Sellars B) W. V. O. Quine C) Kant D) Carnap
A) Russell's theory of descriptions B) Austrian realism C) Sense-data theories D) Cartesian dualism
A) 'Proletarian unfreedom' B) 'Negative liberty' C) 'Distributive justice' D) 'Positive liberty'
A) Logical ascent B) Semantic ascent C) Metaphysical ascent D) Epistemic ascent
A) Process metaphysics. B) Predicate logic. C) Truth table method. D) Theory of types.
A) Logical pluralism B) Knowledge about knowledge C) The principle of sufficient reason D) Justified true belief
A) Russell B) Wittgenstein C) Sellars D) Carnap
A) Robert Nozick B) Henry Sidgwick C) Thomas Nagel D) John Rawls
A) R. M. Hare B) G. E. Moore C) Philippa Foot D) Elizabeth Anscombe
A) The linguistic ladder. B) The beetle-in-a-box thought experiment. C) The color-exclusion problem. D) The duck-rabbit ambiguous image.
A) Legal positivism B) Analytical Marxism C) Liberal egalitarianism D) Ordinary language philosophy
A) Derek Parfit B) John Locke C) Bernard Williams D) David Lewis
A) Karl Popper B) David Lewis C) John Anderson D) J.N. Findlay
A) Doubting all knowledge claims B) Answering 'how do we know?' before 'what do we know?' C) Focusing on particular instances of knowledge D) Applying induction to philosophical problems
A) The deontological revival B) The emotivist shift C) The consequentialist resurgence D) The 'aretaic turn'
A) Error theory B) Universal prescriptivism C) Expressivism D) Emotivism
A) Fred Dretske B) Robert Nozick C) Wittgenstein D) G. E. Moore
A) Fourth phase B) Third phase C) Second phase D) First phase
A) David Lewis B) John Anderson C) J.N. Findlay D) Karl Popper
A) Austrian realism B) Sense-data theories C) Cartesian dualism D) Russell's theory of descriptions
A) They solve all philosophical problems. B) All its propositions are ultimately meaningless. C) They provide a comprehensive system of logical atomism. D) They express the totality of actual states of affairs.
A) Zhang Shenfu B) Tscha Hung C) Hong Qian D) Liang Qichao
A) Ernst Mally B) Axel Hägerström C) Georg Henrik von Wright D) Eino Kaila
A) Chisholm B) Wittgenstein C) Nelson Goodman D) G. E. Moore
A) Bertrand Russell. B) Saul Kripke. C) Ludwig Wittgenstein. D) Willard Van Orman Quine.
A) Liberal egalitarian distributive justice B) Marx's historical materialism C) Free-market libertarianism D) Legal positivism
A) Eino Kaila B) Axel Hägerström C) Ernst Mally D) Georg Henrik von Wright
A) Otto Neurath B) Moritz Schlick C) Hans Reichenbach D) Rudolf Carnap
A) Carnap. B) Ruth Barcan Marcus. C) Saul Kripke. D) Willard Van Orman Quine.
A) Roderick Chisholm B) Quine C) Michael Huemer D) Alvin Goldman
A) Pragmatism B) Metaphysical theorizing C) Logical positivism D) Empiricism
A) Cultural Revolution B) Economic reforms of the 1970s C) Communist political pressure D) World War II
A) 1970s B) 1956 C) 1920 D) 1945
A) Animal rights B) Legal positivism C) Historical materialism D) Free-market libertarianism
A) Charlie Broad B) David Lewis C) John McTaggart D) Arthur Prior
A) Moritz Schlick B) Rudolf Carnap C) Friedrich Waismann D) Hans Reichenbach
A) Alvin Goldman B) Quine C) Ernest Sosa D) Roderick Chisholm
A) Tscha Hung B) Liang Qichao C) Zhang Shenfu D) Jin Yuelin
A) Samuel Alexander B) David Lewis C) John Anderson D) J.N. Findlay
A) A proof system. B) A semantics. C) An algorithm. D) A syntax.
A) Principia Mathematica. B) Logical Atomism. C) Process and Reality. D) The 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'.
A) He became a professor at Oxford University B) He published a major work on logical positivism C) He fled to the United States D) He was murdered by his former student, Hans Nelböck
A) David Lewis B) Nelson Goodman C) Stanisław Leśniewski D) Peter Van Inwagen
A) Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) B) Animal Liberation (1975) C) A Theory of Justice (1971) D) The Open Society and its Enemies (1945)
A) Distributive justice B) Self-mastery C) Proletarian unfreedom D) Absence of coercion
A) Hägerström's idealism B) Descartes' error C) Austin's speech acts theory D) Strawson's presupposition of existence
A) G. A. Cohen B) John Rawls C) Karl Popper D) Matthew Kramer
A) Some Remarks on Logical Form B) The Blue Book C) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus D) Philosophical Investigations
A) Answering 'what do we know?' before 'how do we know it?' B) Doubting that knowledge exists C) Focusing on methodological criteria first D) Applying closure principles to knowledge
A) Analytic terms. B) Flexible descriptions. C) Synthetic constructs. D) Rigid designators.
A) A truth-bearer B) An ontological commitment C) A redundancy theory D) A semantic theory
A) Piero Sraffa B) Rush Rhees C) Frank Ramsey D) John Wisdom
A) The liar paradox B) Tense logic C) The consequence argument D) The principle of sufficient reason
A) Incompatibilism B) Determinism C) Libertarianism D) Perdurantism
A) Coherentism B) Phenomenal conservatism C) Causal theory of knowledge D) Virtue epistemology
A) Quantifier logic. B) Deontic logic. C) Modal logic. D) Predicate logic.
A) Mind B) Erkenntnis C) Philosophical Review D) Analysis
A) Piero Sraffa B) John Wisdom C) Ludwig Wittgenstein himself D) Frank Ramsey
A) JC Beall B) Graham Priest C) Edmund Gettier D) Jan Łukasiewicz
A) Alvin Goldman B) Ernest Sosa C) Roderick Chisholm D) Quine |