LECTURE 1
Question 1
What is the main question of the lecture?
A) How do atoms move?
B) Do atoms exist?
C) Why is chemistry important?
D) How do we build scientific instruments?
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 2
The Ancient Greek meaning of “atom” (ἄτομος) is:
A) The smallest unit of life
B) A tiny particle that can be split
C) Indivisible and uncuttable
D) A modern scientific theory
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 3
Which field asks: “What entities exist and what is their nature?”
A) Epistemology
B) Ethics
C) Metaphysics
D) Sociology
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 4
Which field studies how we obtain knowledge?
A) Metaphysics
B) Epistemology
,C) Physics
D) Biology
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 5
What is the main conflict between metaphysics and epistemology?
A) Whether science is useful
B) Which is more fundamental: existence or knowledge
C) Whether atoms are real
D) Whether science is moral
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 6
Which approach claims scientific theories can be verified?
A) Popper’s falsificationism
B) Kuhn’s historicism
C) Layman’s verificationism
D) Feyerabend’s anarchism
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 7
The problem of induction is:
A) A machine problem
B) The issue of proving something with only observations
C) A new scientific method
D) A type of logical fallacy
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 8
Which philosopher argued that scientific theories must be falsifiable?
,A) Kuhn
B) Popper
C) Feyerabend
D) Bloor
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 9
Which theory is an example of pseudoscience in the lecture?
A) Big Bang
B) Evolution
C) Creationism
D) Quantum Mechanics
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 10
Kuhn’s approach is mainly:
A) Normative
B) Descriptive
C) Mathematical
D) Psychological
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 11
Lakatos focused on:
A) Describing what scientists do
B) The social causes of beliefs
C) Rational reconstruction of science
D) Rejecting all scientific methods
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 12
, Feyerabend is famous for which idea?
A) Falsification
B) Scientific realism
C) Methodological anarchism
D) Empirical verification
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 13
What does Feyerabend mean by “anything goes”?
A) Scientists can do anything without rules
B) There is no universal scientific method
C) All science is false
D) Science is the only truth
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 14
What does the “practice turn” focus on?
A) Abstract scientific rules
B) Day-to-day scientific practices
C) Mathematical proofs
D) Philosophical arguments only
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 15
Which idea says we need sociology to understand science?
A) Popper’s falsificationism
B) Kuhn’s paradigms
C) Bloor’s sociological reductionism
D) Lakatos’s research programs
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 1
What is the main question of the lecture?
A) How do atoms move?
B) Do atoms exist?
C) Why is chemistry important?
D) How do we build scientific instruments?
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 2
The Ancient Greek meaning of “atom” (ἄτομος) is:
A) The smallest unit of life
B) A tiny particle that can be split
C) Indivisible and uncuttable
D) A modern scientific theory
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 3
Which field asks: “What entities exist and what is their nature?”
A) Epistemology
B) Ethics
C) Metaphysics
D) Sociology
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 4
Which field studies how we obtain knowledge?
A) Metaphysics
B) Epistemology
,C) Physics
D) Biology
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 5
What is the main conflict between metaphysics and epistemology?
A) Whether science is useful
B) Which is more fundamental: existence or knowledge
C) Whether atoms are real
D) Whether science is moral
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 6
Which approach claims scientific theories can be verified?
A) Popper’s falsificationism
B) Kuhn’s historicism
C) Layman’s verificationism
D) Feyerabend’s anarchism
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 7
The problem of induction is:
A) A machine problem
B) The issue of proving something with only observations
C) A new scientific method
D) A type of logical fallacy
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 8
Which philosopher argued that scientific theories must be falsifiable?
,A) Kuhn
B) Popper
C) Feyerabend
D) Bloor
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 9
Which theory is an example of pseudoscience in the lecture?
A) Big Bang
B) Evolution
C) Creationism
D) Quantum Mechanics
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 10
Kuhn’s approach is mainly:
A) Normative
B) Descriptive
C) Mathematical
D) Psychological
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 11
Lakatos focused on:
A) Describing what scientists do
B) The social causes of beliefs
C) Rational reconstruction of science
D) Rejecting all scientific methods
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 12
, Feyerabend is famous for which idea?
A) Falsification
B) Scientific realism
C) Methodological anarchism
D) Empirical verification
✅ Correct answer: C
Question 13
What does Feyerabend mean by “anything goes”?
A) Scientists can do anything without rules
B) There is no universal scientific method
C) All science is false
D) Science is the only truth
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 14
What does the “practice turn” focus on?
A) Abstract scientific rules
B) Day-to-day scientific practices
C) Mathematical proofs
D) Philosophical arguments only
✅ Correct answer: B
Question 15
Which idea says we need sociology to understand science?
A) Popper’s falsificationism
B) Kuhn’s paradigms
C) Bloor’s sociological reductionism
D) Lakatos’s research programs
✅ Correct answer: C
