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