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