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