Deck 3: Reality and Being

Question 1

The view that whatever I perceive is merely one of my perceptions or a collection of them is known as

A) Subjective idealism
B) Objective idealism
C) Subjective materialism
D) Objective materialism

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes endorses

A) Libertarianism
B) Compatibilism
C) Determinism
D) Existentialism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The neutrino has no mass, no electric charge, and no magnetic field.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Newton believed that all material bodies in the universe were governed by universal laws of nature.

Question 5

Which view is the heir of pragmatism and idealism?

A) Materialism
B) Irrealism
C) Antirealism
D) Immaterialism

Question 6

Who was also known as the Lokyata?

A) The Buddhists
B) The Hindus
C) The Charvakas
D) The Augustinians

Question 7

Hobbes believed that there was more to the Universe than measureable mater.

Question 8

St. Augustine found it difficult to believe that spirits were real.

Question 9

Dewey believed that philosophy arose out of people's struggles to deal with social and political problems.

Question 10

Heidegger was influenced by which view?

A) James' pragmatism
B) Ayer's positivism
C) Husserl's phenomenology
D) Descartes' skepticism

Question 11

Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us.

Question 12

Hobbes believed that our mental states are states of our brain.

Question 13

Charles S. Pierce was concerned with the psychological effects of ideas.

Question 14

Which pragmatist was concerned with the logical implications of ideas?

A) John Dewey
B)
C) William James
C)S. Pierce
D) Elmer Sprague

Question 15

Hobbes believed that

A) Only matter is real
B) Only spirit is real
C) The world is composed of both matter and spirit
D) The world cannot be known

Question 16

Sartre endorses

A) Libertarianism
B) Determinism
C) LaPlacianism
D) Psychologism

Question 17

A) J. Ayer believed that there were only two kinds of meaningful statements:

A) Relations of ideas and statements of fact
B) Relations of ideas and tautologies
C) Empirical hypotheses and statements of fact
D) Relations of fact and statements of ideas

Question 18

The Charvaka philosophers were spiritualists.

Question 19

Husserl believed that Europe had inherited rational certainty from the Greeks.

Question 20

Who is best known for writing of our own human being in the world, our Dasein?

A) James
B) Husserl
C) Heidegger
D) Plato

Question 21

____________________ is the view that matter is the ultimate constituent of reality.

Question 22

____________________ ____________________ is generalizing about what we observe.

Question 23

According to James, pragmatism looks towards ____________________ things.

Question 24

____________________ idealism contains elements of both objective and subjective idealism.

Question 25

Do you think that our consciousness is effective in leading us to act? Do we make decisions, or do our decisions merely flow through us? Are these empirical questions, or metaphysical ones? Explain your answer.

Question 26

Do you believe that pragmatism is a tenable middle ground between materialism and idealism? If not, why not? If so, why do you think this? How do your answers to these questions illustrate your own views on the value and role of metaphysics in understanding the world around you?

Question 27

In what way might our language be said to create our world? Drawing on your answer to this question, what practical implications do you think it could have¾if any¾for social change? If you believe that your answer has no such implications, explain why.

Question 28

____________________ ____________________ appeals to general statements to reach its logical conclusions.

Question 29

If everything is comprised of matter, and if all matter is governed by causal laws, it is possible that humans are free in the sense required for moral responsibility? Explain your answer.

Question 30

Objective idealism accounts for the ____________________ of our experiences.
or

Question 31

Imagine that you are placed into a machine that stimulates your brain, making you think that your life is going wonderfully well, while all the time you are simply attached to an "Experience Machine" in a basement. Given that you could not tell that your life was illusory, would you choose to enter this machine, or not? Would it make a difference to you in answering this question if you learned that Berkeley's idealism was correct? Why, or why not?

Question 32

The City of God was written by ____________________.

Question 33

The philosophical school that contends that ____________________ is the underlying reality that appears to our consciousness is phenomenology.

Question 34

____________________ is the belief that reality is essentially composed of minds and their ideas.

Question 35

____________________ is the view that reality is only one kind of thing.