Metaphysics
Which philosopher is considered to be the creator of the mind-body problem?
René Descartes
The view that knowledge can only be attained through experience reflects what epistemological position?
Empiricism
Is the following argument valid?
If p, then q
not p
∴ q
No, invalid
This Philosopher claims God is dead.
Frederich Nietzsche
What does iff stand for?
if and only if
This pre-socratic philosopher believed the logos of the universe was that of fire.
Heraclitus
This pre-Socratic Greek philosopher is one of the first to ever produce a purely rational account of the world?
Parmenides
This ancient Greek philosopher invented logic.
Aristotle
This French absurdist concerns his work with the myth of Sisyphus.
Albert Camus
What does the latin term "Philosophia" translate to in English?
Love of Wisdom
Democritus, the pre-socratic philosopher, proposed a theory of the universe consisting of _______.
Atoms
What is the name of the theory that argues that truth and reality only can be understood in their relation to how things work in the real world?
The theory of pragmatism
Is the following argument valid?
∴ If p then r
Yes, valid
This French philosopher was concerned with power and social change, holding the general belief that knowledge is power.
Michel Foucault
This Latin term means "To Infinity".
Ad Infinitum
This early modern philosopher proposed a metaphysical account that utilized the idea of a monad, a substance that cannot be divided.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The _______ problems challenge the theory of Justified True Belief.
Gettier
Named after logician George Boole, a boolean value represents a _______. Boolean values are fundamental to every computer.
Binary truth value (1 or 0)
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher who specialized his work in the field of __________.
Phenomenology
______ knowledge is knowledge attained independently of experience.
A priori
Kant proposes that there is no certainty that the exterior world is as it seems to human senses because there is no way of perceiving objective objects without sense perception. What name does Kant give to objects in their true state un-perceived?
Which professor in Guelph's Philosophy department is focused on feminist epistemology?
Karyn Freedman
This English philosopher published a work entitled Novum Organum, and it pertained to science, the inductive method, and logic as a response to Aristotle's Organon.
Francis Bacon
Which prominent figure in German idealism wrote about the master-slave dialectic?
Friedrich Hegel
What is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction? (It is in Latin)
Reductio ad absurdum