PHI-215 Final Exam Questions/ 130 Q&A/ The renowned philosopher who lived and worked in the Greek city of Alexandria in the fifth century was - ANSW..Hypatia

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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Hypatia

For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising search
for - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..the Appeal to
Ignorance

The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to _____. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Socrates

For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of _____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 _____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..metaphysics

The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and
_____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..ethics

A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically scrutinized to
uncover the truth is known as _____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..the Socratic Method

The fallacy of arguing that a claim must be true simply because many people believe it
is known as _____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..the Appeal to Popularity

Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the branch of
philosophy known as _____. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..epistemology

The view that mind and body are completely independant of one another and interact
causally. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Cartesian Dualism

The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Identity theory

The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but not
reducible to, physical properties. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Property Dualism

,The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..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. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..an immaterial, thinking thing

The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..functionalism

The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical world. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..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. -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..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. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..there is something that it is
like to be that organism

, According to Fodor, in the functionalist view the psychology of a system depends not on
the stuff it is made of but on _____.

-how the stuff is put together
-how the stuff relates to modern physics
-what kind of stuff it is
-what psychologists say about the stuff - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..how the stuff is put together

Chalmers's zombie twin is identical to him _____.
-psychically
-functionally and psychologically
-functionally but not psychologically
-psychologically only - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..psychologically

Chalmers argues that his zombie is _____.
-actual
-conceivable
-impossible
-not conceivable - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..conceivable
Paley says that every indication of contrivance that exists in the watch exists in
____________.
A.
the works of nature
B.
God
C.
time
D.
infinity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A.
the works of nature

According to Paley, we must conclude that a watch had an intelligent designer if the
watch _____________.
A.
is engraved
B.
has a structure
C.
runs well
D.
shows purposefullness - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..D.
shows purposefullness

Aquinas says that the first efficient cause of everything is ____________.
A.
God