PHI-215 Final Exam Questions/ 130 Q&A/
2024-2025.
The renowned philosopher who lived and worked in the Greek city of Alexandria
in the fifth century was - Answer: Hypatia
For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising
search for - Answer: what's true and real
is arguing either that (1) a claim is true because it hasn't been proven false or (2) a
claim is false because it hasn't been proven true - Answer: the Appeal to
Ignorance
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,The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to
_____. - Answer: Socrates
For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of _____. - Answer: knowledge
The study of reality in the broadest sense, an inquiry into the elemental nature of
the universe and the things in it, is known as _____. - Answer: metaphysics
The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology,
and _____. - Answer: ethics
A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically
scrutinized to uncover the truth is known as _____. - Answer: the Socratic Method
The fallacy of arguing that a claim must be true simply because many people
believe it is known as _____. - Answer: the Appeal to Popularity
Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the
branch of philosophy known as _____. - Answer: epistemology
The view that mind and body are completely independant of one another and
interact causally. - Answer: Cartesian Dualism
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,The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states. - Answer:
Identity theory
The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but not
reducible to, physical properties. - Answer: Property Dualism
The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical. - Answer:
Materialism
What is Aristotle's view of the possibility of immortality?
-He accepts it.
-He rejects it.
-He neither accepts nor rejects it.
-He claims that the answer is circumstantial. - Answer: He rejects it.
According to Descartes he is...
-a material, thinking thing
-a material, non-thinking thing
-an immaterial, thinking thing
-an immaterial, non-thinking thing - Answer: an immaterial, thinking thing
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs. - Answer:
functionalism
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, The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical
world. - Answer: Mind-body-problem
What is 'the causal closure of the physical'?
a.
The capacity to be realized or instantiated in a variety of forms and materials.
b.
The claim that it will only be a matter of time before strong AI has been achieved.
c.
The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in particular ways in certain
circumstances.
d.
The principle that the world is a closed system of physical processes and effects. -
Answer: d.
The principle that the world is a closed system of physical processes and effects.
The notion that mental properties do not cause anything, but merely accompany
physical processes. - Answer: epiphenomenalism
According to Nagel, an organism has conscious mental states if and only if _____.
-it has human-like physical attributes
-there is something that it is like to be that organism
-the mental states are reducible to functional states
-the mental states play the right causal role - Answer: there is something that it is
like to be that organism
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2024-2025.
The renowned philosopher who lived and worked in the Greek city of Alexandria
in the fifth century was - Answer: Hypatia
For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising
search for - Answer: what's true and real
is arguing either that (1) a claim is true because it hasn't been proven false or (2) a
claim is false because it hasn't been proven true - Answer: the Appeal to
Ignorance
Page 1 of 45
,The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to
_____. - Answer: Socrates
For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of _____. - Answer: knowledge
The study of reality in the broadest sense, an inquiry into the elemental nature of
the universe and the things in it, is known as _____. - Answer: metaphysics
The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology,
and _____. - Answer: ethics
A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically
scrutinized to uncover the truth is known as _____. - Answer: the Socratic Method
The fallacy of arguing that a claim must be true simply because many people
believe it is known as _____. - Answer: the Appeal to Popularity
Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the
branch of philosophy known as _____. - Answer: epistemology
The view that mind and body are completely independant of one another and
interact causally. - Answer: Cartesian Dualism
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,The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states. - Answer:
Identity theory
The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but not
reducible to, physical properties. - Answer: Property Dualism
The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical. - Answer:
Materialism
What is Aristotle's view of the possibility of immortality?
-He accepts it.
-He rejects it.
-He neither accepts nor rejects it.
-He claims that the answer is circumstantial. - Answer: He rejects it.
According to Descartes he is...
-a material, thinking thing
-a material, non-thinking thing
-an immaterial, thinking thing
-an immaterial, non-thinking thing - Answer: an immaterial, thinking thing
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs. - Answer:
functionalism
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, The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical
world. - Answer: Mind-body-problem
What is 'the causal closure of the physical'?
a.
The capacity to be realized or instantiated in a variety of forms and materials.
b.
The claim that it will only be a matter of time before strong AI has been achieved.
c.
The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in particular ways in certain
circumstances.
d.
The principle that the world is a closed system of physical processes and effects. -
Answer: d.
The principle that the world is a closed system of physical processes and effects.
The notion that mental properties do not cause anything, but merely accompany
physical processes. - Answer: epiphenomenalism
According to Nagel, an organism has conscious mental states if and only if _____.
-it has human-like physical attributes
-there is something that it is like to be that organism
-the mental states are reducible to functional states
-the mental states play the right causal role - Answer: there is something that it is
like to be that organism
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