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Advanced Philosophy Historical Milestones

Advanced Philosophy

A collection of historical facts and verified events in modern and advanced philosophy.

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8 Questions Easy Ages 12+ Oct 15, 2026

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1 Which German philosopher published the landmark text 'Critique of Pure Reason' in 1781?

A Immanuel Kant
B Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
C Arthur Schopenhauer
D Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

2 Which philosophical movement was formally established by a group of scholars known as the Vienna Circle in the 1920s?

A Existentialism
B Logical Positivism
C Stoicism
D German Idealism

3 What was the only full-length philosophical book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein during his lifetime?

A Philosophical Investigations
B On Certainty
C Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
D The Blue and Brown Books

4 In 1964, which French existentialist philosopher declined the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A Albert Camus
B Jean-Paul Sartre
C Maurice Merleau-Ponty
D Michel Foucault

5 Which major 1927 work by German philosopher Martin Heidegger explored the fundamental ontology of 'Dasein'?

A Being and Nothingness
B Being and Time
C The World as Will and Representation
D Truth and Method

6 Published in 1949, 'The Second Sex' is a foundational work of feminist philosophy written by which author?

A Judith Butler
B Hannah Arendt
C Simone de Beauvoir
D Rosa Luxemburg

7 Which American philosopher published the influential 1951 essay 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'?

A Willard Van Orman Quine
B John Dewey
C Richard Rorty
D Charles Sanders Peirce

8 Thomas Kuhn popularized the term 'paradigm shift' in which 1962 book?

A The Logic of Scientific Discovery
B The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
C Against Method
D The Metaphysics of Science

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