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25 practice questions.
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1
Which work by Immanuel Kant introduces the concept of the 'transcendental unity of apperception'?
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A
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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B
Critique of Pure Reason
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C
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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D
Critique of Practical Reason
2
In Willard Van Orman Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', which concept is identified as the second dogma?
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A
The analytic-synthetic distinction
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B
Verificationism
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C
Reductionism
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D
Holism
3
Which 17th-century philosopher proposed the doctrine of 'occasionalism' to explain mind-body interaction?
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A
Nicolas Malebranche
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B
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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C
Baruch Spinoza
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D
René Descartes
4
What is the central thesis of Hilary Putnam's 'Twin Earth' thought experiment?
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A
Semantic externalism
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B
Logical positivism
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C
Phenomenological reduction
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D
Empirical falsification
5
Which term did Edmund Husserl use to describe the method of suspending judgment about the existence of the external world?
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A
Noesis
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B
Epoché
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C
Intentionality
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D
Eidos
6
According to Arthur Schopenhauer, what constitutes the fundamental 'thing-in-itself'?
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A
The Will
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B
The Categorical Imperative
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C
The Monad
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D
The Absolute Spirit
7
In the philosophy of language, what does Saul Kripke argue constitutes a 'rigid designator'?
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A
A word that changes meaning across possible worlds
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B
A term that refers to the same object in every possible world
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C
A proper name used only as a predicate
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D
A definite description of an abstract object
8
Which philosopher authored 'The Concept of Mind' and coined the phrase 'the ghost in the machine'?
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A
Gilbert Ryle
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B
A.J. Ayer
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C
J.L. Austin
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D
P.F. Strawson
9
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that the universe is composed of what simple, indivisible substances?
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A
Atoms
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B
Monads
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C
Quarks
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D
Forms
10
Which existentialist work by Jean-Paul Sartre differentiates between 'being-in-itself' and 'being-for-itself'?
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A
Nausea
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B
No Exit
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C
Being and Nothingness
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D
The Transcendence of the Ego
11
What is the primary focus of Alfred Tarski's semantic theory of truth?
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A
The correspondence between propositions and reality
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B
The satisfaction of sentential functions
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C
The coherence of belief systems
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D
The pragmatic utility of truth claims
12
In Kierkegaardian philosophy, which stage of life is characterized by the aesthetic pursuit of pleasure?
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A
The Ethical
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B
The Religious
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C
The Aesthetic
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D
The Dialectical
13
Which philosopher is associated with the 'paradox of analysis' concerning the informativeness of conceptual definitions?
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A
G.E. Moore
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B
Bertrand Russell
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C
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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D
Frege
14
What did John Locke characterize as a 'tabula rasa' in his 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'?
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A
The divine nature
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B
The human mind at birth
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C
The structure of language
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D
The basis of moral law
15
Which philosophical movement is defined by the rejection of metaphysics and the assertion that only empirically verifiable statements are meaningful?
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A
Logical Positivism
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B
German Idealism
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C
Structuralism
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D
Critical Theory
16
What does Thomas Nagel argue is missing from purely physicalist accounts of consciousness in 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?'?
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A
Functional processing
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B
Subjective character of experience
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C
Neurochemical correlates
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D
Behavioral output
17
In Hegelian dialectics, what is the sequence of the triad?
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A
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
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B
Premise, Deduction, Induction
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C
Object, Subject, Absolute
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D
Form, Matter, Substance
18
Which of these philosophers is considered the primary architect of 'Deconstruction'?
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A
Jacques Derrida
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B
Michel Foucault
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C
Jean-François Lyotard
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D
Gilles Deleuze
19
What is the 'Grue paradox', introduced by Nelson Goodman, intended to demonstrate?
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A
The problem of induction
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B
The failure of deductive logic
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C
The subjectivity of color perception
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D
The limits of mathematical proof
20
Which work by Ludwig Wittgenstein argues that 'the limits of my language mean the limits of my world'?
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A
Philosophical Investigations
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B
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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C
On Certainty
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D
Blue and Brown Books
21
What concept does David Lewis utilize to argue for the existence of possible worlds?
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A
Modal Realism
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B
Actualism
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C
Nominalism
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D
Conceptualism
22
According to Baruch Spinoza's 'Ethics', what is the nature of the relationship between God and Nature?
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A
God created Nature as a distinct entity
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B
God and Nature are identical (Deus sive Natura)
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C
Nature is an illusion created by God
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D
God is external to the laws of Nature
23
Which philosophical theory asserts that mental states are identical to physical states of the brain?
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A
Property Dualism
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B
Identity Theory
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C
Eliminative Materialism
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D
Panpsychism
24
What is the 'Deductivist' objection to the principle of verification in logical positivism?
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A
It cannot be empirically verified itself
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B
It assumes too much about logic
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C
It ignores the role of intuition
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D
It requires infinite regression
25
Which philosopher wrote 'The Phenomenology of Perception' and explored the role of the lived body in experience?
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A
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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B
Henri Bergson
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C
Gabriel Marcel
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D
Emmanuel Levinas
