Philoskoupídia
Metaphysics is the study of...
...the fundamental nature of reality/existence
This NMSU philosophy professor has a book titled "Happy-People-Pills for All".
Dr. Mark Walker
What valid form is also called "Affirming the Antecedent"?
Modus Ponens: If P, then Q. P. Therefore Q.
Sartre said we are "condemned to be...." what?
Free
"The highest good is pleasure."
NOT PLATO: Epicurus
Which philosopher is best known for his statement cogito ergo sum?
Rene Descartes
This NMSU philosophy professor has a publication titled "Desert-Adjusted Utilitarianism, People, and Animals"
Dr. J-P Vessel
What is this valid form called?
P or Q.
Not P.
Therefore, Q.
Disjunctive Syllogism.
This absurdist philosopher told us to imagine Sisyphus happy as he rolls his boulder forever.
Albert Camus
"True knowledge is remembering the Forms we knew before birth."
PLATO: Theory of Recollection, Meno/Phaedo
Which philosopher described life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"?
Thomas Hobbes
This NMSU philosophy professor went to MIT
Dr. Jen Noonan
Is this a valid form?
If P, then Q.
Not P.
Therefore, not Q.
No. This is denying the antecedent.
Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Temperance are the 4 pillars of which philosophy?
Stoicism
NOT PLATO: Hobbes/Leviathan influence
The Academy
This NMSU philosophy professor received their Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Maryland
Dr. Lori Keleher
In J-P's baby logic, "An argument, A, is valid =df......
in virtue of A's logical form, A's conclusion must be true, if A's premises are all true."
This Danish thinker said we often need to take a "leap of faith" to find meaning in life.
Søren Kierkegaard
NOT PLATO: Aristotle
Which philosopher wrote the book Critique of Pure Reason?
Immanuel Kant
Which NMSU professor is the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of Immanuel Kant?
Dr. Justin Klocksiem
q ∨ r → (r → ¬p)
If q or r, then if r then not p.
What is the English translation of the Greek word eudaimonia?
Flourishing/well-being/living well
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
PLATO: Apology