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