Midterm Introduction To Philosophical Ideas Widener University
Please complete the following test. You must answer all ten questions. Each question has a value of 1. 5 points. The total value of the test is 15 points. Good luck!
- 1.What is epistemology?
- A.
The theory of knowledge
- B.
The theory of values
- C.
A work written by the philosopher Rene Descartes
- D.
All of the above
- 2.What is an argument?
- A.
A confrontation between two persons or more
- B.
An opinion
- C.
A systematic arrangement of sentences
- D.
None of the above
- 3.What is ontology
- A.
The theory of knowledge
- B.
The theory of reality
- C.
The philosophy of mind
- D.
All of the above
- 4.What is the mind/body problem?
- A.
An argument advanced by Plato against the possibility of knowledge
- B.
A theory about the connection between the idea of God and our own existence
- C.
The problem of explaining the relationship between mental states and physical states
- D.
None of the above
- 5.The claim "justified true belief" refers to
- A.
A theory about the nature of knowledge
- B.
The nature of religious experience
- C.
Gilbert Ryle's claim concerning Descartes' theories of the relationship between the mind and the body
- D.
None of the above
- 6.Rene Descartes argues that reality could be a dream, and that it is very hard to know whether it is a dream or not, if we only rely on our previous experience and senses.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Thomas Aquinas believes that the best way to establish the belief that God exists is by appealing to our intuitions about logic and conceptual analyses of the concept "God."
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Philosopher Edmund Gettier maintains that we can have a certain belief, and we can have justification for believing in the truth of that belief, and yet we may not have knowledge.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Anselm of Canterbury believes that once we understand the concept of God properly, we must conclude that God exists
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Rene Descartes maintains that we know the nature of our own minds in a more intimate way than we know the nature of material bodies
- A.
True
- B.
False
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