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Philosophy fun facts
Epistemology
Banned Words
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"Might get myself down to the agora today to question a few locals. Hope the wife Xanthippe is in a good mood today."

Socrates

100

A fan of this dualist theory might say "why does everybody hate the soul"?

Substance dualism

100

The word "philosophy" comes from these two Greek words.

Philos and sophia

100

"Episteme" is the Greek word for this.

Knowledge

100

They come in tubes and a range of flavours, including sour cream and onion.

Pringles

200

"This whole Protestant thing is really stressing me out. Time to tip out all my apples and carefully consider everything I know. Better keep a look out for that evil demon too."

Rene Descartes

200

The thought experiment "Mary's Room" was devised by this Australian philosopher.

Frank Jackson

200

This is the singular form of qualia

Quale

200

Plato used the allegory of this to explore philosophical enlightenment.

The cave

200

Not just the 16th president of the United States, but a banned word (or six) in this classroom (and also a vampire hunter).

Abraham Lincoln
300

"My birth name is Aristocles, but you might know me better by this nickname, meaning 'broad', given to me in my wrestling days."

Plato

300

This monist theory essentially boils down to "man wants beer, man goes to the fridge and gets beer."

Biological naturalism

300

In an early draft of Plato's Gorgias, the character of Gorgias taunts this great philosopher by saying that he had to sneak into the local barbershop and steal bits of hair that had fallen on the floor and glue them to his face.

Socrates

300

This ancient philosopher thought that experience and using the senses was essential to knowledge.

Aristotle

300

Probably the only banned word that makes any sense, he's the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

Donald Trump

400

"If you don't accept that illusionism is the default theory of consciousness, then you're just gullible folk building card castle theories."

Daniel Dennett

400

This monist theory argues that everything has consciousness.

Panpsychism

400

Chidi in the Good Place is a big fan of this man's bundle theory of the self.

David Hume

400

One of the main sticking points between the continental rationalists and the British empiricists was this type of knowledge, that we are born already knowing about certain things, like God (or perfect circles)

Innate knowledge

400

The name for these invertebrates can follow "book" and "ear".

Worms

500

"Lord Shaftesbury seems to have got himself into a little bit of trouble with the law. Time for a tabula rasa and for me to find a new rich lord to fund my philosophising."

John Locke

500

This Australian philosopher originated the phrase (and the concept) "the hard problem of consciousness".

David Chalmers

500

This man, the creator of the panopticon and a big fan of David Hume, wanted his body to be preserved after death so that he could be wheeled out at parties if his friends missed him.

Jeremy Bentham

500

George Berkeley was a big fan of the idea of "esse est percepi", meaning "to be is to..."

Perceive

500

The largest species of this is called Armillaria Ostoya, also the largest living organism on earth.

Fungi