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WorksheetsPhilosophy and Science Multiple Choice Questions
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
The science on forms, laws and ways of thinking:
logic
axiology
ontology
epistemology
logistics
The form of empirical cognition:
judgment
hypothesis
observation
syllogism
theory
The concept used in the logic and methodology of science to denote the process of establishing the truth of scientific statements as a result of their empirical experience:
Hypothesis
The concept
Falsification
Demarcation
Verification
The main task of philosophy is the construction of a new method of science, believed:
Socrates
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
Georg Hegel
Aristotle
The philosopher who formulated 4 methodological rules:
Socrates
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
Georg Hegel
Aristotle
A philosophical method based on the principles of interpretation of any texts or systems of concepts:
Maieutics
Dialectics
Hermeneutics
Eclectic
Sophistry
The founder of the experimental mathematical methods of nature research:
Galileo Galilei
Nicolas Copernicus
Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Moore
Niccolo Machiavelli
The influence of philosophy on XVII century Modern science is the creation of two most important philosophical and methodological concepts:
Modernism and Postmodernism
Rationalism and Empiricism
Sensualism and Empiricism
Personalism and Pragmatism
Existentialism and Philosophy of life
The main function of science is:
The search and production of new knowledge
The education of people
Cultural development of society
Technological development and improvement of life style
Social justice and harmony
The main purpose of science is:
Make a discovery
Achieve the truth
Do experiments
Explore nature
Create theories
The philosopher who introduced the concepts of “normal science” and “paradigm shift”:
I. Lakatos
P. Feyerabend
A. Comte
T. Kuhn
L. Wittgenstein
The practical value of science is as follows:
Do experiments
Explore nature
Make a discovery
To bring benefits to humanity
Create theories
The prerequisites of the experimental method were obtained in the era of:
Antiquity
the Middle Ages
Renaissance
Modern Times
Postmodern
The principle of falsification was introduced into scientific circulation by:
J. Derrida
A. Camus
K. Jaspers
T. Kuhn
K. Popper
The set of beliefs, values, technical means adopted by the scientific community and providing a scientific tradition:
scientific paradigms
scientific theories
scientific schemes
Scientific revolutions
scientific experiments
The work "The structure of scientific revolutions" was written by postpositivist:
K. Popper
T. Adorno
J. Habermas
T. Kuhn
L. Wittgenstein
This philosopher and scientist told about the hypertrophied development of science:
Ernest Rutherford
Richard Dawkins
Isaak Newton
Bertrand Russell
Gottfried Leibniz
What principle is opposite to verification?
falsification
simulation
stimulation
regeneration
generalization
The conclusion of the 14th-century scholastic philosopher William of Ockham about the necessity to separate ethical-theological problems from philosophical ones is called:
Ockham's boundary
Ockham's razor
Ockham's knife
Ockham's scissors
Ockham's blade
Descartes calls the study of God, the soul, and the beginnings of perfect knowledge:
Theology
Teleology
Metaphysics
Physics
Ethics
The three stages in the history of humanity (religious, metaphysical, positive or scientific) were distinguished by:
Auguste Comte
Karl Marx
Immanuel Kant
Friedrich Engels
Søren Kierkegaard
Technology as a means of understanding, revealing truth changes the perception of nature by humans, according to:
Herbert Marcuse
Alvin Toffler
Martin Heidegger
Arnold J. Toynbee
Karl Jaspers
The idea of "technocracy" as the rule of engineers was initially developed by:
A) Thorstein Veblen
B) Max Weber
C) Karl Marx
D) Herbert Marcuse
E) José Ortega y Gasset
The "myth of the machine," that is, the idea that mega-technology is unavoidable in our lives and is highly beneficial, was debunked by:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Lewis Mumford
Daniel Bell
Walt Whitman Rostow
Jacques Ellul
The statement that the biological laws of the struggle for existence and natural selection operate in the social sphere is characteristic of:
Freudian
Positivism
Marxism
Darwinism
Creationism
Founder of sociology as a positive science:
M. Weber
O. Comte
K. Marx
G. Hegel
I. Kant
"All sciences are divided into physics and stamp collecting", - said:
Ernest Rutherford
Richard Dawkins
Immanuel Kant
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics," - argued:
Copernicus
Galileo
Bacon
Descartes
Newton
"There is as much truth in every knowledge as there is mathematics", - believed:
Copernicus
Galileo
Kant
Descartes
Newton
A system of philosophy that recognize only things that can be scientifically or logically proved is:
Romanticism
Existentialism
Nihilism
Positivism
There is no correct answer
Aristotle divided the Sciences into three group:
Theoretical, practical and rational
Theoretical, practical and cultural
Theoretical, practical and ethical
Theoretical, practical and empirical
Theoretical, practical and poetic
Author by the famous “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”:
Francis Bacon
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Benedict Spinoza
Rene Descartes
Author of concept of the scientific knowledge model:
I. Lakatos
G. Leibniz
J. Fichte
G. Hegel
A. Schopenhauer
Author of the mechanical scientific vision of the world:
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Leibniz
Benedict Spinoza
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
From the point of view of externalism, the emergence of science is due to:
External circumstances
Social environment
Economic situation
Political power
All of the above
In the philosophy of science, the problem of distinguishing the science and non-science:
falsification
verification
proliferation
demarcation
negative heuristics
Leonardo da Vinci was not only a great artist, but also:
A) A great inventor
B) A scientist
C) An engineer
D) A writer
E) All of the above
Philosophers, close towards internalism are:
Descartes
Hegel
Popper
Husserl
All of the above
The application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a reproducible way and also the product of such an endeavor:
technology
production
reproduction
quantification
qualification
The author of the Concept of Personal Knowledge is:
Ernest Rutherford
Richard Dawkins
Michael Polanyi
Bertrand Russell
Isaak Newton
The author of the famous treatise of the Middle Ages "Canon of medical science":
Al-Kindi
Ibn Sina
Al-Farabi
Ibn Khaldun
Al-Ghazali
The author of the term "paradigm":
Thomas Kuhn
Erich Fromm
Sigmund Freud
Bertrand Russell
Imre Lakatos
