Free will - Quiz
A) Whether humans have a biological soul. B) Whether the universe is infinite in size. C) Whether we possess the control over our actions we feel we have. D) Whether society can exist without laws.
A) The early Greek stoics. B) The medieval scholastic scholars. C) The postmodernist philosophers. D) The existentialist thinkers.
A) Scientific proof of quantum mechanics. B) A strong sense of freedom, agency, and self-determination. C) Religious indoctrination in early childhood. D) The absence of physical laws in the universe.
A) The idea that the mind is separate from the body. B) The theory that actions are random. C) The principle that no physical event has a cause outside the physical domain. D) The belief that the future is already written.
A) The theory that free will is impossible. B) The idea that physical objects have no internal structure. C) The belief that human behavior is entirely unpredictable. D) The view that the future is determined entirely by preceding events.
A) The difficulty of defining what an action is. B) The debate over whether animals have free will. C) The question of why humans fear death. D) The puzzle of reconciling free will with a deterministic universe.
A) Because it makes it difficult to decide which laws are ethical. B) Because it implies that all people are inherently evil. C) Because it suggests that moral values change over time. D) Because it raises the question of how to assign responsibility if actions are caused by past events.
A) Free will is synonymous with the laws of physics. B) Free will holds as long as humans are not externally constrained or coerced. C) Free will is a total illusion created by the brain. D) Free will only exists in non-deterministic universes.
A) By separating freedom of will from freedom of action. B) By differentiating between moral and legal responsibility. C) By separating physical freedom from spiritual freedom. D) By distinguishing between conscious and subconscious choices.
A) The freedom from all biological needs. B) The ability to make rational decisions. C) The capacity to predict the future. D) The power to alter the laws of physics.
A) The form of incompatibilism which posits that determinism is false and free will is possible. B) The idea that all decisions are made randomly. C) The belief that the government should have no control over citizens. D) A theory that humans are entirely controlled by their environment.
A) It cannot explain the existence of the physical world. B) It is difficult to assign responsibility for indeterministic choices. C) It requires that all actions be deterministic. D) It relies too heavily on modern physics.
A) Environmental and social determinism. B) Logical and theological determinism. C) Economic and political determinism. D) Mechanical and digital determinism.
A) Physical, chemical, and nuclear determinism. B) Atomic, subatomic, and molecular determinism. C) Biological, cultural, and psychological determinism. D) Historical, geographical, and linguistic determinism.
A) The feeling of freedom is irrelevant to human life. B) The feeling of freedom is biologically proven. C) The feeling that we are free to choose is an illusion. D) The feeling of freedom is the only reality.
A) Advice. B) Deliberation. C) Prohibition. D) Astrological destiny.
A) Hard determinism. B) Metaphysical libertarianism. C) Illusionism. D) Classical compatibilism.
A) Socrates B) Epicurus C) Plato D) Aristotle
A) 3rd century CE B) 4th century BCE C) 2nd century BCE D) 1st century CE
A) arbitrium liberum B) liberum arbitrium C) libertas voluntatis D) voluntas libera
A) 3rd century CE B) 4th century BCE C) 1st century CE D) 4th century CE
A) Biological necessity B) Causal indetermination C) Divine intervention D) Nothing hindering us
A) Predestination B) Fixed natural laws C) Lack of external hindrances D) Causal indetermination
A) Christian philosophy B) Enlightenment philosophy C) Ancient Greek philosophy D) Modern empiricism
A) No B) Yes C) Only compatibilists did D) Only incompatibilists did
A) Robert Kane B) Peter van Inwagen C) d'Holbach D) Thomas Reid
A) d'Holbach B) Thomas Reid C) Carl Ginet D) Daniel Dennett
A) A priori B) Cogito ergo sum C) Causa sui D) Tabula rasa
A) Carl Ginet B) David Lewis C) Alex Rosenberg D) Daniel Dennett
A) Position 2 B) Position 9 C) Position 3 D) Position 1
A) Information theory B) Chaos theory C) String theory D) Relativity theory
A) Laplace's demon. B) The Chinese Room. C) Schrodinger's cat. D) The Prisoner's Dilemma.
A) The steady flow of time B) Probabilistic subatomic particle behavior C) The predictability of gravitational forces D) The biological evolution of species
A) Agent/substance-caused events B) Non-deterministically caused events C) Pre-determined divine causality D) Uncaused events
A) An external stimulation B) A determined outcome C) A volition D) A physical reflex
A) Self-generating B) Determined by physical laws C) Caused by specific intentions D) Determined by beliefs
A) Physicalism B) Panpsychism C) Causal determinism D) Agent causation theory
A) Idealist models B) Dualist models C) Functionalist models D) Physicalist models
A) Substantive volitionism B) Efforts of will theory C) Centred accounts D) Deliberative indeterminism
A) Niels Bohr B) C.S. Lewis C) Robert Kane D) Daniel Dennett
A) Electromagnetism B) Relativity C) Quantum indeterminacy D) Thermodynamics
A) Logical positivism B) Empirical physicalism C) Material monism D) Substance dualism
A) Substance monism B) Compatibilist voluntarism C) Interactionalist dualism D) Physicalist determinism
A) Immanuel Kant B) Derk Pereboom C) Galen Strawson D) John Locke
A) Soft determinism B) Classical libertarianism C) Hard determinism D) Compatibilism
A) Hard incompatibilism B) Compatibilism C) Pessimism D) Incompatibilism
A) Pessimism B) Hard incompatibilism C) Soft determinism D) Classical libertarianism
A) Derk Pereboom B) Classical libertarians C) The author of the text D) Galen Strawson
A) As scientific terms B) As opposites C) Only in theological contexts D) Interchangeably
A) Often self-caused. B) Often uncaused. C) Neither uncaused nor self-caused. D) Both uncaused and self-caused.
A) Predeterminism B) Logical determinism C) Causal determinism D) Omniscience
A) Theological indeterminism B) Libertarianism C) Predeterminism D) Logical determinism
A) Logical determinism B) Biological determinism C) Predestination D) Fatalism
A) Shintoists B) Taoists C) Buddhists D) Calvinists
A) Fatalism B) Omniscience C) Biological determinism D) Logical determinism
A) Determinateness B) Hard determinism C) Fatalistic determinism D) Theological determinism
A) Sigmund Freud. B) Boethius. C) Karl Marx. D) Socrates.
A) The problem of personal identity B) The hard problem of logic C) The problem of induction D) The mind–body problem
A) Plato. B) Chrysippus. C) Epicurus. D) Marcus Aurelius.
A) The Physical Mind B) Freedom Evolves C) Elbow Room D) Newcomb's Paradox
A) The absolute future B) Divine destiny C) Past decisions D) Expectations
A) Sociology B) Neurological sciences C) Theoretical physics D) Mathematics
A) Adrenaline B) Cortisol C) Dopamine D) Serotonin
A) Identity dualism B) Theological determinism C) Cognitive naturalism D) Classical incompatibilism
A) Creating biological cells. B) Choosing freely. C) Storing mechanical energy. D) Governing photosynthesis.
A) Purely random chance theories. B) Mathematical nihilism. C) Newer compatibilist concepts. D) Strictly evolutionist mandates.
A) Darwinism. B) Classical Newtonian gravity. C) Extreme reductionism. D) Quantum mechanics exclusively.
A) Practical reasons. B) Social conditioning. C) Biological impulses. D) Chemical reactions.
A) Only in ancient paganism. B) In most religions. C) Exclusively in secular philosophy. D) Only in scientific journals.
A) Denying the existence of the will B) Rejecting all forms of destiny C) Embracing pure indeterminism D) Loving one's fate
A) Amor fati B) Velleity C) Principle of sufficient reason D) Noumenon
A) Rudolf Steiner B) William James C) Arthur Schopenhauer D) Chrysippus
A) Incompatibilism B) Pragmatism C) Meliorism D) Stoicism
A) Thoughts B) Scientific data C) Social punishment D) External influences
A) Imagination B) Mobile C) Moral D) Motive
A) Determinism B) Moral imagination C) Indeterminism D) Incompatibilism
A) Introspection B) Incompatibilism C) Stoicism D) Meliorism
A) 1720 B) 1739 C) 1750 D) 1780
A) A mental construct B) A physical law of nature C) A divine order D) An empirical certainty
A) David Hume B) John Locke C) Immanuel Kant D) Walter Freeman
A) Judgments of fact B) Judgments of sensory perception C) Judgments of material science D) Moral judgments
A) Fixed material determination B) Self-organizing dynamics C) The abandonment of moral judgment D) Simple neural stimulus-response
A) Thirteenth B) Fourteenth C) Fifteenth D) Twelfth
A) Ignore their own intellect B) Reject all authority C) Avoid all suffering D) Seek certain goals
A) Socratic method B) Aristotelian telos C) Stoic indifference D) Platonic idealism
A) Four B) Six C) Five D) Three
A) Habit B) Judgment C) Memory D) Passion
A) The intellect B) The will itself C) The human soul D) God
A) Pubbekatahetuvada B) Pratītyasamutpāda C) Idappaccayatā D) Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
A) Absolute freedom B) A total agent C) Ignorance D) Divine destiny
A) Nagarjuna B) The Cārvākans C) The Buddha D) The Samkhyists
A) The Jain canons B) The Vedic scriptures C) The Nyaya Sutras D) Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
A) Jacobus Arminius B) John Calvin C) Thomas Aquinas D) Luis de Molina
A) Martin Luther B) Augustine of Hippo C) Jacobus Arminius D) John Calvin
A) Peter B) Paul C) James D) John
A) Molinism B) Calvinism C) Thomism D) Arminianism
A) Yoga B) Samkhya C) Vedanta D) Nyaya
A) Ishvara B) Kaivalya C) Mitzvot D) Bechirah chofshit
A) Jabr B) Adl C) Qadar D) Fitra
A) Mu'tazila B) Shia C) Sufi D) Ash'ari |
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