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