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• Topic 8: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Continental Tradition
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According to David Hume, what do we directly observe?
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a. physical objects
b. sense impressions
c. ourselves
d. our brains
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According to Immanuel Kant, perception is the:
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a. same as sense impressions.
b. organizing principle of the mind.
c. application of the organizing principles of the mind to sense impressions.
d. direct awareness of noumenal objects.
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Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das Ding-an-sich)?
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a. because they have not yet been experienced
b. because they are not physical in nature
c. because they are not mental in nature
d. because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them
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According to the philosophy of Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between "being real" and "being knowable"?
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a. No reality is knowable.
b. All reality is knowable.
c. Some reality is knowable and some aren't.
d. Only God is ultimately unknowable.
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According to David Hume, the self is a(n) _____.
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a. sequence of perceptions
b. immaterial, unchanging substance
c. physical body
d. social entity
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According to Hegel, the highest reality (the absolute) is _____.
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a. the entire material world
b. a God who exists beyond the world
c. an infinite thought thinking of itself
d. a vast group of independent particulars
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Identify a true statement about Søren Kierkegaard.
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a. He scorned Hegel's system, in which the individual dissolves into a kind of abstract unreality.
b. He read Arthur Schopenhauer and became convinced that the world is driven by cosmic will, not by reason.
c. He believed that systematic philosophy, with its grandiose schemes, with its mind-body and other dualistic splits, with its metaphysics and metaphysical traditions, must give way to more original kind of thinking.
d. He agreed with Friedrich Nietzsche as to the nature of the cosmic will.
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Who made the study of multiplicity the centerpiece of his thought?
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a. Michel Foucault
b. Ferdinand de Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d. Gilles Deleuze
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For French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, what is culture?
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a. a system of signs
b. a conversation
c. a common heritage
d. a common language
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An authentic existence can be found, according to Heidegger, only if one can _____.
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a. believe in God
b. believe in the superior man
c. take responsibility for one's choices
d. understand oneself as a totality
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What would Jacques Derrida say about the definitive meaning of a text?
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a. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the author intended for it to mean.
b. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the reader understands it to mean.
c. He maintained that the definitive meaning of a text means whatever the majority of experts take it to mean.
d. He maintained that no definitive meaning of a text could ever be established.
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Which of the following statements is true about Martin Heidegger?
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a. He was sympathetic to the Marxist worldview.
b. He believed that, as a consequence of the nonexistence of God, nothing about Being is necessary.
c. He abandoned his belief in Being as the basic principle of philosophy.
d. He believed that people are basically ignorant about the thing that matters most—the true nature of Being.
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What was the fundamental philosophical question for Albert Camus?
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a. Does God exist?
b. Is there any reason not to commit suicide?
c. What should I wear to my funeral?
d. Will I survive death?
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According to logical atomists, the world is a collection of:
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a. atomic facts.
b. physical atoms.
c. immaterial minds.
d. sense-data.
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Which of the following is an ontological question?
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a. Do selves exist?
b. Is torture justified?
c. Is knowledge subjective?
d. Do democracies lead to tyranny?
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Which of the following best expresses phenomenalism as a metaphysical theory?
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a. Physical objects don't exist, just sense-data.
b. Sense-data don't exist, just physical objects.
c. Sense-data are caused by, but not identical to, physical objects.
d. Physical objects are definable in terms of sense-data.
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Necessary truths are:
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a. true statements that could be false.
b. true statements that could not possibly be false.
c. statements known to be true independently of any experience.
d. statements known to be true through experience.
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According to the logical positivists, which of the following determines the meaning of an assertion purporting to be about reality?
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a. the intentions of the writer or speaker
b. the public definitions of the words involved
c. the use to which the assertion is put
d. the observations that verify it
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Which of the following perspectives is held by antirepresentationalists?
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a. Beliefs do not represent reality.
b. True beliefs are those that hang together in a coherent fashion.
c. True beliefs are those that most members of a group consent to.
d. Beliefs correctly represent the world as it is.
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Which philosopher is associated with the idea of a language game?
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a. Russell
b. Rorty
c. Dewey
d. Wittgenstein [Show Less]