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WorksheetsScepticism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the purpose of philosophical scepticism?
To see whether we are brains in vats
To test the limits of knowledge
To argue that we don't know anything at all
To suspend judgement on all matters
'We cannot know that the past existed' is an example of...
Global scepticism
Local scepticism
Normal incredulity
Lockean scepticism
Descartes 3 waves of doubt are...
Evil demon, illusions and the cogito
Wax, evil demon and dreaming
The trademark, dreaming and illusions
Evil demon, dreams and illusions
The difference between philosophical doubt and normal incredulity is...
Philosophical doubt is more extreme
For normal incredulity, we have evidence
Normal incredulity only focuses on local scepticism
Philosophical doubt is always global
Descartes escapes scepticism by...
Showing we know we exist through the cogito
Showing an evil demon couldn't exist
Showing God exists and is no deceiver
Showing that God is perfect and infinite
(Multiple choice) Locke's argument against scepticism is...
Coherence of the senses
Best hypothesis
Involuntary nature of the senses
Master argument
Russell's argument is...
The best guess
The Master argument
The best hypothesis
The veil of perception
Hume's response is...
To poke scepticism with his fork
The senses cohere
It doesn't really matter either way
We should trust our strong natural inclination
(Multiple answers )Berkeley's response to scepticism is...
God wouldn't deceive us
You perceive the mind dependent world directly so there is no room for scepticism
Our senses are coherent
We are in the (God) matrix
Reliabilists respond to scepticism by...
If we have a reliable process we can rule out BIV situations
We can reliably pick mushrooms we can reliably know we are not BIVs
We can't reliably know whether we are BIVs
We can rely on a malign demon to deceive us
