Philo Qz
According to Rawls, all social values (opportunity, liberty, income, wealth, etc.) are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distribution is ___
to everyone's advantage
The doctrine that every event is determined or necessitated by preceding events and the laws of nature is known as...
determinism
Descartes believes that the very fact that he is thinking shows that __
he exists
The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states
identity theory
Locke rejected the notion of __
innate ideas
The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical world
mind-body problem
Searle believes that understanding Chinese (or any other language) is
not merely a matter of symbol manipulation
Incompatibilists believe that compatibilist freedom is...
not real freedom
___ is the view that God and the universe are one and the same thing, a divine whole
pantheism
Libertarians contend that real freedom is not just the power to act if we will to act, but ____
power over will itself
The difficulty of justifying the assumption that the future will be like the past is known as ____
problem of induction
According to Marx, the ________ are many but own nothing, serving only as workers in the capitalist system
proletariat
The view that mental properties are nonphysical properties arising from, but not reducible to, physical properties
property dualism
According to Rawls, behind the veil of ignorance, the principles of justice are _____
result of a fair agreement or bargain
Under _____, people are rewarded according to their needs, not by how well or how hard they work
socialism
Communism usually implies...
socialism within a totalitarian system
An a priori statement is a statement...
that can be known independently of or prior to experience
What was Immanuel Kant's "Copernican Revolution?
that objects conform to the mind
__ is arguing either that (1) a claim is true because it hasn't been proven false or (2) a claim is false because it hasn't been proven true
the appeal to ignorance
Which of the following was not recommended (in our text) by Marx as a means to enable socialism where capitalism already exists?
Free healthcare for every citizen
The renowned philosopher who lived and worked in the Greek city of Alexandria in the fifth century was
Hypatia
(T/F) Paley says that if we found a watch and examined it closely, we would naturally infer that it had a maker - even if we had never seen a watch made
T
(T/F) Taylor rejects soft determinism
T
(T/F) The concept of "the meaning of life" is, in common usage, vague and slippery
T
(T/F) Van Inwagen rejects compatibilism
T
Who said:"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentimentsthat differentiate me from a doormat."
Rebecca West
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is________
representational
A statement that is not analytic is __
synthetic statement
The guiding principle of the socialist view is...
equality
Barkeley insists that heat and cold are ______
only sensations existing in mind
The following is an example of an analytic statement
all bodies extended
What does Marx call the group of people who own the means of production in a society?
bourgeoisie
According to Smart, the report of an "after-image" or "ache" is a report of
brain process
(T/F) Taylor thinks that soft determinism is true to our moral intuitions
F
Nagel believes that knowledge of what it is like to be a bat can be acquired through scientific investigation (T/F)
F
who said: "Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. It is, therefore, just as necessary to make our concepts sensible, that is, to add to the object to them in intuition, as to make our intuitions intelligible, that is, to bring them under concepts. These two power s or capacities cannot exchange their functions. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise."
Kant
Paley says that every indication of contrivance that exists in the watch exists in ____
the works of nature
According to Kant, noumena is...
the world, in itself, outside our experience
Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in __
a mind
The view that a free action is caused by an agent (person) is called...
agent causation
For Plato, beauty is ____
an Idea or Form
The fallacy of arguing that a claim must be true simply because many people believe it is known as
appeal to popularity
__ hold that determinism is necessary for free will; an undetermined choice, they say, would be random and uncontrolled by the agent
compatibilists
Chalmers's zombie twin is identical to him...
functionally and psychologically
According to Descartes he is
immaterial, thinking thing
According to Aquinas, an infinite regress of causes is _
impossible
According to Locke, a man in the state of nature will relinquish his absolute freedom to the state because...
in the state of nature the enjoyment of his freedom is very uncertain and vulnerable
The Consequence Argument is supposed to establish _
incompatibilism
According to Hobbes, the definition of injustice is
***disobedience to a sovereign *** *(failure abide by contract)*
Who said:"...an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or ficure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. If we look but ever so little into our thoughts, we shall find it impossible for us to conceive a likeness except only between our ideas."
Berkeley
who said: "...I was persuaded that there was nothing in all the world, that there was no heaven, no earth, that there were no minds, nor any bodies: was I not then likewise persuaded that I did not exist? Not at all..."
Descartes
who said: "...when our senses do actually convey into our understandings any idea, we cannot but be satisfied that there doth something at that time really exist without us. which doth affect our senses, and by them give notice of itselfto our apprehensive faculties, and actually produce that idea which we then perceive..."
Locke
(T/F) Paley's argument, if cogent, proves the existence of a Christian God
F
(T/F) Taylor believes that simple determinism allows us to have a plausible form of free will
F
(T/F) Albert Camus said, "Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
T
(T/F) Chalmers's zombie is not like the zombies found in Hollywood movies
T
(T/F) Feminists intend to point out, not that the relationships between men and women are inherently political, but that politics has failed to address the nature of these relationships.
T
(T/F) In a socialist system wealth is controlled by the state, which allocates it for the good of the people generally
T
(T/F) Internalists say that anyone can have a meaningful life without relying on the concepts of God or transcendent realms
T
(T/F) Many believe that unless a divine entity or transcendent reality has provided the world with ultimate purpose or value, life is meaningless
T
Traditionally art has been defined as ___
representation
According to Paley, we must conclude that a watch had an intelligent designer if the watch __
shows purposefullness
According to Rawls, each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with _____
similar liberty for others
The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to
socrates
A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically scrutinized to uncover the truth is known as
socratic method
The view that the aesthetic properties of an art object are solely in the eye of the beholder is known as...
subjectivism
Feminist postmodernists refuse to accept which basic tenet of feminist standpoint theory?
that there can be a single privileged perspective from which to aquire knowledge
Internalists believe they can have meaningful lives without relying on....
the concepts of God and transcendant realms
According to Taylor, hard determinism conflicts with...
the fact of deliberation and our sense that some actions are up to us
According to Locke, every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to everyone of that society to submit to the determination of __
the majority
Locke's purpose is to enquire into __________
the origin and extent of human knowledge
According to the text, what are the two principal answers to whether life has any meaning for us?
the pessimist's view and the optimist's view
According to Locke, the chief end of men's uniting into a commonwealth is ______
the preservation of their property
According to Stace, free acts must be...
those whose immediate causes are psychological states in the agent
Feminist standpoint theory says that different social groups have distinctive kinds of knowledge acquired through...
unique experiences
For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising search for
what's true and real
What is 'the causal closure of the physical
The principle that the world is a closed system of physical processes and effects
According to Hobbes, whenever and wherever men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, there is ...
War
what branch: dogs more beautiful than cats
aesthetics (question)
what branch: Which objects or persons are the most important?
axiology (question)
In _________, wealth goes to anyone who can acquire it in the marketplace
capitalism
The view that mind and body are completely independant of one another and interact causally
cartesian dualism
The purging of the emotions of pity and fear by experiencing them vicariously in a theatrical context is known as...
catharsis
Searle argues that the Chinese room thought experiment shows that
claims strong AI not possible
An important formal characteristic of art is____
coherence
The view that although determinism is true, our actions can still be free
compatibalism
Chalmers argues that his zombie is
conceivable
a belief in one God who created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
deism
Kant wants us to believe that logical and mathematical concepts________
depend on the innate structure of our minds
Descartes says that, for all he knows, he may be _
dreaming
Who said: "Most of us would say without hesitation that a person's life had meaning if we knew that he devoted himself to a cause"?
edwards
The notion that mental properties do not cause anything, but merely accompany physical processes
epiphenomenalism
Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the branch of philosophy known as
epistemology
The philosophical study of knowledge is known as _
epistemology
what branch: how do we know what we know?
epistemology (question)
According to Hobbes, in the condition of man in which there is a state of war of everyone against everyone, every man has a right to ...
everything
Anselm argues that a being which exists in reality is greater than a being that _____
exists only in the understanding
Hume had maintained that knowledge of the world comes entirely from __
experience
Locke asserts that all the components of reason and knowledge come from _
experience
Leo Tolstoy says that art is ____
expression
Baggini says that almost all deniers of meaning in life really seem to be rejecting only the idea that life has ____
external meaning
Pessimists regarding life's meaning believe that life can have no meaning if ...
external meaning is nonexistant
Descartes had been disillusioned by his discovery that many of the alleged truths he had learned as a youth were _
false
The view that art is defined by its form is known as _______
formalism
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs
functionalism
Block's Chinese brain argument is meant to show that
functionalism is false
Aquinas says that the first efficient cause of everything is _
god
What is Aristotle's view of the possibility of immortality?
he rejects it
According to Fodor, in the functionalist view the psychology of a system depends not on the stuff it is made of but on...
how stuff put together
The view that not every event is determined by preceding events and the laws of nature
indeterminism
For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of
knowledge
The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and
logic
According to Eve Browning Cole, feminist empiricism maintains that philosophers and scientists need to be told to __
look again
According to Sartre, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, and that being is __
man
The doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical
materialism
In The Republic, Plato argues that the only kind of society that can ensure people get their due is a _____
meritocracy
The study of reality in the broadest sense, an inquiry into the elemental nature of the universe and the things in it, is known as
metaphysics
what branch: what is real?
metaphysics (question)
According to d'Holbach, people always act according to ___
necessary natural laws
Hume says that beauty is ____
no quality in things themselves
Plato's view is that true beauty is ___
not of this world
Incompatibilists believe that compatibilist freedom is ___
not real freedom
___ is the view that although God and the world are distinct, the world is part of God
panentheism
The Challenge of reconciling determinism with our intuitions or ideas about personal freedom is known as...
problem free will
According to d'Holbach, all the mental and moral attributes that people think are evidence for an immaterial soul are in fact...
purely physical and natural
The branch of science that provides a counterexample to the notion that every even has a cause is known as...
quantum physics
According to Nagel, an organism has conscious mental states if and only if
there is something that it is like to be that organism
According to a recent poll, what percentage of secular, nonreligious, or atheistic people thought their lives had an important meaning or purpose?
83%
Who said: "When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connectio; and quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and reders the one an infallibe consequesnce of the other."
Hume