PHIL101 UD ROGERS ACTUAL EXAM 3
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Who is the father of modern philosophy? - ANSWER Descartes
What is the adjective from Descartes? - ANSWER Cartesian
For Medieval the point of doing philosophy is to... - ANSWER ...lead
the good and happy life, here and in the hereafter.
Medieval Philosophy takes it as a given that... - ANSWER ...we know
some things and then asks how it is that we are able to know them.
For moderns the point of doing philosophy is to... - ANSWER ...limit
our beliefs to only those that are properly justified...not to hold any
false beliefs
,Modern Philosophy starts with making a claim about how we know and
then asks... - ANSWER ...What can we know.
Is Descartes' project skeptical or anti-skeptical? - ANSWER Anti-
skeptical. Wants to put knowledge on a firm foundation.
Descartes' project distinguishes between... - ANSWER ....knowledge
and mere belief.
According to Descartes' project, in order to have knowledge we need to
justify ____. - ANSWER our beliefs
___Philosopher____ is a foundaionalist. - ANSWER Descartes
Basics of Foundationalism - ANSWER The thought is that there are
certain basic beliefs that are justified (one way or another), such that
they do not require any FURTHER justification and all of your justified
beliefs are either basic, or else they can be justified by tracing their
justification back to the basic beliefs.
Analogy o=for foundationalism. - ANSWER think of an epistemic edifice
(building) where the upper parts are grounded upon the foundation.
Two types of foundationalists: - ANSWER empiricists and rationalists
,empiricism - ANSWER All of our knowledge begins with experience
Is Descartes a rationalist or empiricist? - ANSWER rationalist
rationalisim - ANSWER Knowledge arises from within one's own mind,
that is, from reason.
rationalism is NOT... - ANSWER from the senses or from experience.
These are changing and different for different people.
knowledge characteristics: - ANSWER justified belief, certainty,
indubitability
Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes' - ANSWER true belief you
get from direct access to the thing known ... Descartes: true belief
cannot be doubted (raised bar way higher than Augustine)
Two ways to know (following the example of mathematics) - ANSWER
intuition
deduction
intuition - ANSWER just "see" intellectively that something is
indubitably the case.
, deduction - ANSWER move from indubitable premises through
indubitable principles to indubitable conclusions.
Descartes' view of knowledge is a ___ epistomology - ANSWER
foundationalist
____ supplies the foundation of basic beliefs and then ___ constructs
the edifice. - ANSWER intuition
deduction
examples of thinks that can be doubted - ANSWER history, memory,
other minds, presence in room, math, logic
descartes' goal is not to make everyone a skeptic. he wants to ... -
ANSWER give you justified knowledge based on a foundation of
certitude (intuition) and moving step by step through certain principles
to certain conclusions (deduction).
how do we get the world back? / Is there anything you can know, from
the very first, by intuition, with absolute certitude? - ANSWER Cogito
ergo sum!
I think therefore I am!
Solipsism - ANSWER I'm the only thing there is? Sol ipse.
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
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Who is the father of modern philosophy? - ANSWER Descartes
What is the adjective from Descartes? - ANSWER Cartesian
For Medieval the point of doing philosophy is to... - ANSWER ...lead
the good and happy life, here and in the hereafter.
Medieval Philosophy takes it as a given that... - ANSWER ...we know
some things and then asks how it is that we are able to know them.
For moderns the point of doing philosophy is to... - ANSWER ...limit
our beliefs to only those that are properly justified...not to hold any
false beliefs
,Modern Philosophy starts with making a claim about how we know and
then asks... - ANSWER ...What can we know.
Is Descartes' project skeptical or anti-skeptical? - ANSWER Anti-
skeptical. Wants to put knowledge on a firm foundation.
Descartes' project distinguishes between... - ANSWER ....knowledge
and mere belief.
According to Descartes' project, in order to have knowledge we need to
justify ____. - ANSWER our beliefs
___Philosopher____ is a foundaionalist. - ANSWER Descartes
Basics of Foundationalism - ANSWER The thought is that there are
certain basic beliefs that are justified (one way or another), such that
they do not require any FURTHER justification and all of your justified
beliefs are either basic, or else they can be justified by tracing their
justification back to the basic beliefs.
Analogy o=for foundationalism. - ANSWER think of an epistemic edifice
(building) where the upper parts are grounded upon the foundation.
Two types of foundationalists: - ANSWER empiricists and rationalists
,empiricism - ANSWER All of our knowledge begins with experience
Is Descartes a rationalist or empiricist? - ANSWER rationalist
rationalisim - ANSWER Knowledge arises from within one's own mind,
that is, from reason.
rationalism is NOT... - ANSWER from the senses or from experience.
These are changing and different for different people.
knowledge characteristics: - ANSWER justified belief, certainty,
indubitability
Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes' - ANSWER true belief you
get from direct access to the thing known ... Descartes: true belief
cannot be doubted (raised bar way higher than Augustine)
Two ways to know (following the example of mathematics) - ANSWER
intuition
deduction
intuition - ANSWER just "see" intellectively that something is
indubitably the case.
, deduction - ANSWER move from indubitable premises through
indubitable principles to indubitable conclusions.
Descartes' view of knowledge is a ___ epistomology - ANSWER
foundationalist
____ supplies the foundation of basic beliefs and then ___ constructs
the edifice. - ANSWER intuition
deduction
examples of thinks that can be doubted - ANSWER history, memory,
other minds, presence in room, math, logic
descartes' goal is not to make everyone a skeptic. he wants to ... -
ANSWER give you justified knowledge based on a foundation of
certitude (intuition) and moving step by step through certain principles
to certain conclusions (deduction).
how do we get the world back? / Is there anything you can know, from
the very first, by intuition, with absolute certitude? - ANSWER Cogito
ergo sum!
I think therefore I am!
Solipsism - ANSWER I'm the only thing there is? Sol ipse.
