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