Aesthetics/ Continental
Logic
Ancient Greeks
Philosophers
Miscellaneous
100
This philosopher's life was so boring and consistent that people could set their watches based on the time he walked by their windows in the morning
Who is Kant
100
These 3 studies made up the original trivium.
What is logic, grammar, & rhetoric
100
DOUBLE QUESTION! 100: Who is the philosopher who said the following aphorism: "No man ever steps in the same river twice for it's not the same river, and he's not the same man." 100: Which philosopher is famed for being believed to have said, “the only thing I know is that I know NOTHING."
Who is Heraclitus Who is Socrates
100
This philosopher requested to have corpses exhumed and hung around his front yard to remind people of their impending deaths.
Who is Bentham
100
DOUBLE QUESTION! 100: Approximately how many books are there in Rutherford Library? 100: The existence of what is what makes the sad boiss so sad?
What is around 1,000,000 Possible answers: - Continental philosophy - The left - PHIL degrees from MacEwan
200
Theodore Adorno would say that our aesthetics (and most aspects of our lives) are affected by this.
What is late capitalism
200
The expression P v - P is a logical tautology know by this name
What is the law of the excluded middle
200
Aristotle used this term to describe "reasoned discource" or "the argument"
What is Logos (λόγος)
200
This esteemed Philosopher was recently accused of sexual harassment.
Who is John Searle
200
"Other people." - Sartre
What is hell
300
This Aesthetic Category is often applied to things that are large and imposing.
What is the sublime
300
In symbolic logic this is the opposite if a tautology
What is a contradiction
300
This term denotes what the Ancient Greeks considered the first principle of existing things.
What is Arche (ἀρχή)
300
DOUBLE QUESTION! 150: How many times was Jacques Derrida arrested for drug trafficking? 150: Which philosopher allegedly died of laughter after seeing an intoxicated donkey eating his figs?
What is only once Who is Chrysippus
300
What does PhD stand for (in English and Latin)
What is Doctor of Philosophy and Philosophiae Doctor
400
In his book Reason and Existenz, Karl Jaspers said the following about which two philosophers? (200 pts for each correct guess) The contemporary philosophical situation is determined by the fact that two philosophers, _ and _, who did not count in their times and, for a long time, remained without influence in the history of philosophy, have continually grown in significance. Philosophers after Hegel have increasingly returned to face them, and they stand today unquestioned as the authentically great thinkers of their age. [...] The effect of both is immeasurably great, even greater in general thinking than in technical philosophy
Who are Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
400
True or False? (P v Q) & - (P & Q) = P ≡ Q
What is False
400
SURPRISE QUESTION! DOUBLE POINTS! (800 pts to each team that can do it) Name 6 female philosophers And 6 Philosophers that aren't white (they can overlap)
You have 1 minute Name 6 female philosophers And 6 Philosophers that aren't white (they can overlap)
400
Who did BuzzFeed determine to be the hottest philosopher?
Who is Wittgenstein
400
Ludwig Wittgenstein brandished this object at Karl Popper in a famously heated argument.
What is a fire poker
500
In letting that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself, Martin Heidegger summarised his characterisation of what concept as follows? Anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned _ HINT: _ is a freedom which has been released from the Illusions of the "they", and which is factical, certain of itself, and anxious.
Acceptable answers: What is freedom towards death What is Being-towards-death
500
True or False? ((A v B) ^ ( A → C) ^ (B → C)) → C
What is True
500
SURPRISE UPA QUESTIONS! (200 pts each) What is the average attendance for our meetings this year? This is the number of pictures that Supreme Leader Greenways is pictured in in the UPA office? This artist painted our beloved presidents this month for absolutely no reward.
What is 11 people What is 12 Who is Patrick Carr
500
This philosopher lost his fortune on a milk-based pyramid scheme.
Who is Max Stirner
500
SPLIT QUESTION! 250: Which Philosopher's last name would score the highest in a game of scrabble? 250: Which Philosopher's last name would score the lowest in a game of scrabble?
You have 4 minutes 4 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E×24, A×16, O×15, T×15, I×13, N×13, R×13, S×10, L×7, U×7 2 points: D×8, G×5 3 points: C×6, M×6, B×4, P×4 4 points: H×5, F×4, W×4, Y×4, V×3 5 points: K×2 8 points: J×2, X×2 10 points: Q×2, Z×2
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