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1
Whose
Chinese Room
argument challenges the claim that a computer could have consciousness?
John Searle
Gilbert Ryle
Thomas Nagel
Robert Nozick
2
Which normative ethical theory is the principle of "the greatest good for the greatest number"?
Deontology
Utilitarianism
Virtue Theory
3
Whose version of utilitarianism includes the
hedonic calculus
?
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
4
Which normative ethical theory is associated with Aristotle?
Deontology
Utilitarianism
Virtue Theory
5
Which mind/body theory claims that mental properties and physical properties are separate?
identity theory
dualism
functionalism
behaviourism
6
Whose version of utilitarianism distinguishes between 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures?
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
7
Which philosopher was sentenced to death, refused to escape, and died by drinking hemlock?
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Epicurus
8
Which philosopher is associated with the phrase
mauvaise foi
('bad faith')?
Michel Foucault
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
9
Which comes last in Socrates' prescribed programme of mathematical studies in Plato
Republic
?
Plane geometry
Solid geometry
Harmonics
Astronomy
10
Whose version of the argument for utilitarianism seeks to prove the principle of utility?
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
11
Which of the following is
not
a normative ethical theory?
Virtue Theory
Cognitivism
Deontology
Utilitarianism
12
Which philosopher was born first?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg W. F. Hegel
Søren Kierkegaard
Karl Marx
13
What type of knowledge can be gained through reason alone and without reference to experience.
a priori
a posteriori
14
Who compared René Descartes' dualism with a person being like a
Ghost in the Machine
?
Thomas Nagel
John Searle
Robert Nozick
Gilbert Ryle
15
Who wrote the pamphlet
Common Sense
in 1776
,
challenging the British government and monarchy?
Jeremy Bentham
William Godwin
John Locke
Thomas Paine
16
Who claimed that "You cannot step in the same river twice"?
Zeno
Pythagoras
Parmenides
Heraclitus
17
Which of the following is not a part of Plato's tripartite theory of the soul?
appetite
instinct
reason
spirit
18
What does the term
Tabula rasa
mean?
blank slate
red table
original sin
free will
19
Who wrote the life of man in the state of nature is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”?
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
20
Which ethical issue is Peter Singer's
drowning child
thought experiment concerned with?
surrogacy
world poverty
abortion
animal welfare
21
Who wrote the book
Emile, or On Education
?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Georg W. F. Hegel
Karl Marx
Michel Foucault
22
Which philosopher is associated with the 'bundle theory' of objects?
David Hume
René Descartes
Aristotle
John Locke
23
Which branch of philosophy examines the nature of being: 'what is there, and what is it like?'
Epistemology
Logic
Metaphysics
Aesthetics
24
Which philosopher was born first?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jeremy Bentham
Immanuel Kant
25
Which argument states God exists based on the principle that everything has a first cause?
Ontological argument
Teleological argument
Cosmological argument
26
Compatibilism
is a theory found in which philosophical debate?
Mind-body problem
Free will and determinism
Problem of other minds
Solipsism
27
Whose
harm principle
argument states that laws should only restrict us from harming others?
Adam Smith
John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham
John Locke
28
Who argues that taxation involves forced free labour, and is thus a form of slavery?
John Rawls
Thomas Nagel
Ronald Dworkin
Robert Nozick
29
According to Kant, improving ones talents would be considered as...
a perfect duty to self
an imperfect duty to self
a perfect duty to others
an imperfect duty to others
30
Which mind/body theory argues mental states (thoughts) correspond to particular brain activity?
dualism
identity theory
behaviourism
functionalism
31
By which two colours are the books containing notes for Wittgenstein's 1933-35 lectures known
Blue and Brown
Red and Brown
Green and Red
Blue and Green
32
Which mind/body theory claims that mental states could theoretically exist in computers?
functionalism
dualism
identity theory
behaviourism
33
Which argument states God exists based on the principle that the world appears to be designed?
Ontological argument
Cosmological argument
Teleological argument
34
Whose paradoxes aimed to show that motion and change are illusions?
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
Zeno
Parmenides
35
Which Biblical character faces existential angst in Kierkegaard's book
Fear and Trembling
?
Abraham
Moses
Jesus
Jacob
36
Whose concept of the Übermensch, or superman, aimed to set a goal for humanity?
Martin Heidegger
Søren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
37
Which normative ethical theory is
consequentialist
?
Virtue ethics
Utilitarianism
Deontological ethics
38
Who wrote
"What is it like to be a bat?"
to counter materialist theories of mind?
Gilbert Ryle
John Searle
Robert Nozick
Thomas Nagel
39
Which philosopher coined the term
speciesism
?
Mary Midgley
Richard D. Ryder
Tom Regan
Peter Singer
40
Which term represents the principle that of various explanations, the simplest is most likely.
The Turing Test
Hume's Guillotine
Occam's Razor
The Golden Mean