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