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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Genesis agrees with the Tao Te Ching in holding that humans are not special and no more important than other things in the world.
True
False
In The Crito, Socrates rejects Crito's argument that escaping from prison would be right because if he doesn't people will think his friends were cowards because
Socrate doesn't care if his friends are cowards.
he thinks the opinions of most people aren't important.
he didn't think anyone would care.
none of these.
When Socrates goes looking for wisdom among the Athenians, he finds it mostly among
the politicians
the poets
the craftsmen
no one
Plato's Theory of Form's two Realms lines up best with the account of the world offered in
Genesis
in the Tao Te Ching
neither of these
both of these
In the Allegory of the Cave, Socrates says that someone who leaves the cave will
be happy to go back.
forget there is a cave.
will be worse off.
will be thought to be crazy and probably killed if they go back to urge other people leave the cave.
According to Plato, the three parts of the soul are
reason, spirt and appetites.
the ego, superego, and id.
reason, memory, and imagination
the mind, the body, and the spirit.
The story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden illustrates the idea that
there is a moral order to the world.
morality is determined by God.
our lives go badly if we defy the moral order.
all of these.
The Tao Te Ching suggests humans will live better if they follow the natural order of the world as represented by the Tao.
True
False
According to Ryle, which of the following would not be an example of a category mistake?
Thinking World War II happened in the 19th Century.
Thinking team spirit is a position on a baseball team.
Thinking doing math is a process in the same sense as digestion.
Thinking I have a mind in the same sense that I have a kidney.
Descartes agrees with Alan Turing that sufficiently sophisticated linguistic behavior is a sure sign of having a mind.
True
False
According to Churchland, that very few people now believe in fairies tells us that the folk theory of fairies has been
reduced
eliminated
confirmed
none of these
A computer that passed the Turing Test would be a challenge to Descartes' theory of the mind because it would seem to show
a machine can have reason.
a non-physical mind is not needed to explain the mind.
both of these.
neither of these.
The Computational Theory of Mind is an example of
eliminative materialism.
the Identity Thesis.
Non-reductive materialism.
all of these.
According to Nagel, I can know what it is like to be a bat if I can imagine myself flying, eating bugs, and sleeping upside down.
True
False
According to Nagel, we are able to reduce a phenomenon to something more basic when we can
move to a more objective understanding of it.
when we know what it is like to be that thing.
when we describe it in terms of our experience of it.
all of these.
The biggest challenge to Descartes' substance dualism is
explaining what substances are.
explain how the mind and body interact.
explaining human behavior mechanically.
all of these.
As an empiricist, Locke would say our knowledge of causation is
innate
a posteriori
a priori
all of these
According to Locke the size of an apple is
more objective than its color.
a primary quality.
both of these.
neither of these.
Reid's Brave Officer example is meant to show
it is wrong to use corporal punishment on children.
memory cannot establish personal identity.
memory can establish personal identity.
people change over time.
Hume argues that our idea of necessary connections or causation is
innate.
a priori.
a creation of custom and nature.
all of these.
Descartes' Evil Genius Argument is meant to show
Descartes cannot be sure he exists.
Descartes cannot be sure the world he experiences actually exists.
God does not exist.
God does exist.
According to Hume, we are less inclined to punish someone who acts out of character because
punishment doesn't work.
we don't think they are as responsible for their actions.
we shouldn't punish anyone.
None of these.
Berkeley agrees with Locke that colors do not exist when they are not perceived.
True
False
According to Baron d'Holbach, when I think I am choosing a Coke over a Pepsi I am really
being caused to act by external forces.
acting at random.
being told what to do by God.
being caused to act by my strongest current desire.
