Mind, Body, and Soul - OCR RS

What philosophical stance does Plato take regarding the soul?

• Empiricist

• Materialist

• Skeptic

• Dualist

According to Plato, where do ideas of perfect forms like circles and justice originate?

• Human imagination

• Scientific discovery

• Physical world

• World of forms

What does Hume suggest about our idea of perfection?

• It is taught in schools

• It is inherited genetically

• It comes from divine inspiration

• It is derived from our imagination

What is Aristotle's view on the soul?

• It is a physical substance

• It is the formal cause of the body

• It exists independently of the body

• It is an illusion

How does modern science view Aristotle's concept of formal causation?

• Rejects it

• Considers it untestable

• Is indifferent to it

• Supports it

What is Descartes' stance on the mind and body?

• Panpsychism

• Neutral monism

• Physicalism

• Substance dualism

According to Descartes, why can't the mind be identical with any physical substance?

• The mind is extended

• The mind is mutable

• The mind is indivisible

• The mind is visible

What does the 'masked man fallacy' critique about Descartes' conceivability argument?

• The mind and body are identical

• The mind is not a physical entity

• Imagining something doesn't prove its possibility

• Consciousness is divisible

What is Ryle's critique of Descartes' dualism?

• It commits a category error

• It is empirically unverifiable

• It uses flawed logic

• It is universally accepted

What does Dawkins say about the soul?

• It is the source of all knowledge

• It is a separate substance from the body

• It is the essence of consciousness

• It does not exist as a literal entity