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Introduction to Philosophy |
Groups of 4 - 6 please.
In each case ring the letter of the correct answer.
A Timetravel
B Science
C Human laziness
A It is knowledge (if there is any) you get just by thinking
B It is knowledge you get through experiment and observation
C It is knowledge you get from books
D If you can't tell the difference between a person and a machine, you must conclude that the machine thinks
E If you can't tell the difference between a person and a machine you must be autistic
F If you can't tell the difference between a person and a machine, you must conclude that the person is lacking consciousness
G Discoveries cannot be predicted in advance
H The 'Great Man' theory of history
I The collapse of Communism
D Though human actions are almost all of them causally determined, there are occasional, vital, exceptions
E Humans actions can be free and causally determined at the same time
F Though there are always many causal influences affecting a decision, there is always also a little bit of freedom left to the individual
P 'uncaused'
Q 'constrained'
R 'unconstrained'
A If there is a pattern amongst events, there must be something bringing that pattern about
B There are no real connections between events
C You can't actually see mere patterns
A It suggests the possibility that a thing can stay the same thing even though all its component parts are replaced
B No matter what you do to a thing you will never be able to destroy it completely
C Museums are a waste of space
D Could you have kept your eye on it the whole time?
E Did it change any of its properties?
F "You cannot step into the same river twice"
F Person A is the same as person B if they both have the exactly the same behaviour
G Person A is the same as person B if A can remember the things B remembers
H Person A is the same as person B if A has the same 'soul' as B
D In perception we always see individual objects, never categories of objects
E In perception we are directly aware not of an object in the world but of representations in our minds
F Perception represents thought processes in general
P Everything
Q Nothing
R Almost everything
A They characterise mental states in terms of their role in society.
B. They characterise mental states in terms of inputs, outputs and interactions with other mental states.
C. They characterise mental states exclusively in terms of behaviour.
A. Science might develop in the future to accommodate experiences, but we have no idea how at the moment.
B. That science will never explain ‘qualia’.
C. That to understand bats properly we must study them scientifically and not rely on a priori speculation.
A. The fact that bats spend most of the day hanging upside down.
B. The fact that bats manage perfectly well without sight
C. what bats like
D. What it is like to be a bat.
E. That to love someone is just to be well disposed towards them.
F. That to love someone is just to like them as they are.
G. That to love someone just is to be disposed to behave in a particular way.
E. There are two fundamental types of substance, physical and mental.
F. There are two options to choose between, physicalism and idealism.
G. There are two parts to the mind – the conscious and the unconscious.
Q. The world is more like a vegetable than a watch and so needs a Gardener – God.
R. Just as a watch implies a watchmaker, so the world implies a world-maker, God.
S. God is a unitary Being without parts, and so is the one entity in the Universe that having no internal organisation, needs no design.
A. “Look to any instance of human suffering whatever and you will find behind it, immediately or remote, nothing but human transgression.”
B. “Why is there any misery at all in the world? Not by chance surely. From some cause then. Is it from the intention of the Deity? But he is perfectly benevolent. Is it contrary to his intention? But he is almighty.”
C. “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”
A. only on the form of the argument.
B. on the truth of the premises.
C. on the likelihood of the conclusion.
D. Arguments which give good reasons for believing a conclusion but not conclusive reasons.
E. Arguments which give conclusive reasons for believing a conclusion.
F. Argements which bring something on prematurely.
F. Science is a rational form of inquiry that employs only rational principles of inference.
G. Science requires the use of inductive arguments.
H. Inductive arguments are not rational inferences since there is no rational justification for them.
C. Pleasure is more important than pain.
D. There are more important things than pleasure.
E. Only pleasure and absence of pain matter.
R. Happiness is only to be achieved in pursuing ends other than happiness
S. You should take into account the ten commandments as well as the calculation of consequences
T. Biology is also important
A. “I ought never to act unless in so doing I will be furthering personal fulfilment.”
B. “I ought never to act
except in such a way
that I could also will that
my maxim should
become a universal law.”
C. “I must never allow reason to overule my true feelings”
A. “Virtue is a mean between two vices, one of excess, the other of deficiency”
B. “Virtue is a mean between two broader virtues.”
C. Avoid extremism in virtue, as also you should avoid extremism in vice.
A. Kant
B. Hume,
C. Mill
D. Aristotle
E. Nietsche
F. Nietzshe
G. Nietzsche
H. Nietzsche
C. It’s as though God were dead
D. God wants us to believe He is dead.
E. God is dead
R. A people of the Atlas mountains.
S. A term of abuse for the moral nihilst.
T. The penultimate question of this quiz.
Now to find the winner.
You are looking for the first line of a certain song. When you have got it, write it down and bring it here.
The first one to get it and get it into my hand here wins the champagne for their group.
What do the letters you have ringed spell out? Go down the columns.