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