PHIL 101 EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which of the following correctly characterizes Freud's beliefs about the self?
________? - ✔✔There are two selves, one conscious and one unconscious
✔✔Gilbert Ryle's concept of the mind was based on his idea that it is a mistake to
_______. - ✔✔Separate the physical and the mental
✔✔Functionalism is the view that _______. - ✔✔Mental states have physically-definable
functions
✔✔Eliminative materialism is the view that _______. - ✔✔Neuroscience will provide a
complete view of the mind
✔✔Functionalism recognizes the possibility of _______. - ✔✔Other beings besides
humans having mental states
✔✔Which of the following best characterizes the subject matter of metaphysics?
_______. - ✔✔The fundamental nature of reality
✔✔Epistemology is basically the study of _______. - ✔✔How we know what we know
✔✔Thales' fundamental belief about water was that it is _______. - ✔✔What everything
is ultimately made of
✔✔Anaximander thought that ultimate reality is boundless and indefinite because
_______. - ✔✔It is the only thing that is not a beginning nor has a beginning
✔✔Parmenides thought that change is the ultimate reality because _______. -
✔✔Everything is in flux
, ✔✔Plato believed that reality consists ultimately of the forms because he thought that
________. - ✔✔Only the forms are perfect and unchanging
✔✔Rationalism is the philosophy that _______. - ✔✔Everything is known by reason
✔✔What was Socrates' theory of innate ideas based upon? ________. - ✔✔His
argument that everything is learned by reason
✔✔Aristotle disagreed with Plato mainly because _______. - ✔✔He thought that Plato's
forms do not explain anything
✔✔Aristotle believed that the soul is _______. - ✔✔The form of the body
✔✔According to Aristotle, the final cause of a thing is _______. - ✔✔Its reason for being
✔✔What did Descartes believe was the fundamental thing that is beyond doubt?
________. - ✔✔That he exists
✔✔Descartes thinks that the existence of physical objects cannot be certain because
_______. - ✔✔It is possible to be deceived about them
✔✔Descartes supposes the existence of an "evil demon" in order to _______. -
✔✔Determine what he cannot be deceived about
✔✔In order for a belief to be justified, _______. - ✔✔It has to be formed in the right way
✔✔Determinism is the thesis that _______. - ✔✔Every event is determined by events
that cause it
✔✔Soft determinism says that _______. - ✔✔There is free will even though
determinism is true
✔✔The main form of compatibilism says that acts are free when they are _______. -
✔✔Desired
✔✔On what basis did Clarence Darrow and Baron D'Holbach argue against freedom of
the will? _______. - ✔✔The will is subject to natural forces just like everything else
✔✔W.T. Stace argued that the will is free when it _______. - ✔✔Does not act under
outside compulsion
✔✔W.T. Stace argued against hard determinism by claiming that _______. - ✔✔We
cannot help but speaking in terms of free will
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which of the following correctly characterizes Freud's beliefs about the self?
________? - ✔✔There are two selves, one conscious and one unconscious
✔✔Gilbert Ryle's concept of the mind was based on his idea that it is a mistake to
_______. - ✔✔Separate the physical and the mental
✔✔Functionalism is the view that _______. - ✔✔Mental states have physically-definable
functions
✔✔Eliminative materialism is the view that _______. - ✔✔Neuroscience will provide a
complete view of the mind
✔✔Functionalism recognizes the possibility of _______. - ✔✔Other beings besides
humans having mental states
✔✔Which of the following best characterizes the subject matter of metaphysics?
_______. - ✔✔The fundamental nature of reality
✔✔Epistemology is basically the study of _______. - ✔✔How we know what we know
✔✔Thales' fundamental belief about water was that it is _______. - ✔✔What everything
is ultimately made of
✔✔Anaximander thought that ultimate reality is boundless and indefinite because
_______. - ✔✔It is the only thing that is not a beginning nor has a beginning
✔✔Parmenides thought that change is the ultimate reality because _______. -
✔✔Everything is in flux
, ✔✔Plato believed that reality consists ultimately of the forms because he thought that
________. - ✔✔Only the forms are perfect and unchanging
✔✔Rationalism is the philosophy that _______. - ✔✔Everything is known by reason
✔✔What was Socrates' theory of innate ideas based upon? ________. - ✔✔His
argument that everything is learned by reason
✔✔Aristotle disagreed with Plato mainly because _______. - ✔✔He thought that Plato's
forms do not explain anything
✔✔Aristotle believed that the soul is _______. - ✔✔The form of the body
✔✔According to Aristotle, the final cause of a thing is _______. - ✔✔Its reason for being
✔✔What did Descartes believe was the fundamental thing that is beyond doubt?
________. - ✔✔That he exists
✔✔Descartes thinks that the existence of physical objects cannot be certain because
_______. - ✔✔It is possible to be deceived about them
✔✔Descartes supposes the existence of an "evil demon" in order to _______. -
✔✔Determine what he cannot be deceived about
✔✔In order for a belief to be justified, _______. - ✔✔It has to be formed in the right way
✔✔Determinism is the thesis that _______. - ✔✔Every event is determined by events
that cause it
✔✔Soft determinism says that _______. - ✔✔There is free will even though
determinism is true
✔✔The main form of compatibilism says that acts are free when they are _______. -
✔✔Desired
✔✔On what basis did Clarence Darrow and Baron D'Holbach argue against freedom of
the will? _______. - ✔✔The will is subject to natural forces just like everything else
✔✔W.T. Stace argued that the will is free when it _______. - ✔✔Does not act under
outside compulsion
✔✔W.T. Stace argued against hard determinism by claiming that _______. - ✔✔We
cannot help but speaking in terms of free will
