PHIL 2 - THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION

PHIL 2 - SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONA AND THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION

• the 12th and the 13 the century

• the 19th and the 20th century

• the 20th and the 21 st century

• the 16 th and the 17 century

In the Aristotelian Cosmology (Ptolemaic or Scholastic) pick the right answer

• the Earth was believed to be perfect

• the Earth was believe to be imperfect

• the Earth and the Heavens were both believed to be perfect

• the Earth and the Heavens were both believed to be imperfect

The most significant events in the establishment of the Scientific Revolution were: pick the wrong answer

• 1543 = theory of the motions of the planets by Copernicus

• 1609-1610 = Galileo's observations of Moon, Jupiter, Venus,and the Sun

• 1693 = Bradley's aberration of light

• 1892 = Ramsey's discovery of noble gases

Propaganda was crucially important to establish the validity of the ideas defended by Galileo and Copernicus

• TRUE

• FALSE

One of the greatest propagandists of the emerging sciences was

• Isaac Newton

• Francis Bacon

• Giordano Bruno

• Giambattista Vico

Which of these books did Francis Bacon write?

• Novum Organum

• Principia Mathematica

• The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

• On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds

Bacon proposed to overcome Aristotelian Deductive Logic and defended the application of Inductive Logic

• TRUE

• FALSE

IDOLS OF THE TRIBE=tendency of humans to perceive more order and regularity in nature than there is in reality

• TRUE

• FALSE

Bacon=encouraged scepticism, call for adoption of instruments to reduce unreliability, and demanded more experiments

• TRUE

• FALSE

INDUCTION = we generalise from a whole collection of particular instances to a particular conclusion.

• TRUE

• FALSE