Phil 201 Midterm Study Guide Questions
with complete solution 2025
philosophy - correct answer ✔the stubborn attempt to answer fundamental
questions about reality; it is a conversation at a dinner table, where we are
eating, talking, and asking questions that matter to you and me
philosophy - correct answer ✔"love of wisdom"
1. metaphysics
2. epistemology
3. logic
4. ethics - correct answer ✔4 divisions of philosophy
metaphysics - correct answer ✔questions about reality:
- do we have free will?
- what are things, really?
- is there a God?
philosophy of language:
- what are words?
1. questions about reality
2. philosophy of language - correct answer ✔2 subdivisions of metaphysics
questions about reality (metaphysics) - correct answer ✔- do we have free
will?
,- what are things, really?
- is there a God?
philosophy of language (metaphysics) - correct answer ✔- what are words?
epistemology - correct answer ✔- what do we know?
- what should we do when we disagree?
philosophy of religion:
- can we know God?
philosophy of science:
- what makes a good scientific theory?
1. philosophy of religion
2. philosophy of science - correct answer ✔2 subdivisions of epistemology
philosophy of religion (epistemology) - correct answer ✔- can we know God?
philosophy of science (epistemology) - correct answer ✔- what makes a
good scientific theory?
logic - correct answer ✔- tools that help us to make sure our arguments are
not only persuasive, but strong
ethics - correct answer ✔- what does it mean to be a good person?
- what does it mean to treat others well?
,applied ethics:
- how should we care for the environment?
- how should we care for very sick patients?
Thales - correct answer ✔water (3 forms)
applied ethics (ethics) - correct answer ✔- how should we care for the
environment?
- how should we care for very sick patients?
what is reality and what is it made of? - correct answer ✔FQ of the
Presocratics
philosopher - correct answer ✔scientist, doctor, biologist, artist,
communicator, etc.
Anaximander - correct answer ✔Boundless (aperon); indestructible and
immortal
Boundless - correct answer ✔the force (PreSocratics)
applied ethics - correct answer ✔the subdivision of ethics
Anaximenes - correct answer ✔air (cannot touch, feel, or manipulate)
Heracleitus - correct answer ✔fire
, - logos: structure in world that allowed fire to do what it does
- everything is made of fire and logos keeps it together - flux: always changing
just like fire (river example where we never step in the same part of the river
because water flows)
- we are constantly changing (skin)
Parmenides - correct answer ✔Being
Zeno - correct answer ✔- paradox stating that motion is impossible (it's your
senses) because no one can cross an infinity of distances (infinitely divisible)
- solution by Aristotle said some idea with time - he can map time to distance
so it can therefore be quantified
Protagoras (Sophist) - correct answer ✔people are the measure of all things:
1. no absolute truth
2. no shared world
3. knowledge is perception
no absolute truth (Protagoras 1) - correct answer ✔people get to decide
what's true because there is _____ (NO ABSOLUTE MORALITY)
ex: smacking pups against trees
no shared world (Protagoras 2) - correct answer ✔you're living in your own
world
knowledge is perception (Protagoras 3) - correct answer ✔whatever you
think is true is just perceived
ex: puddle was like a lake when you were a kid
with complete solution 2025
philosophy - correct answer ✔the stubborn attempt to answer fundamental
questions about reality; it is a conversation at a dinner table, where we are
eating, talking, and asking questions that matter to you and me
philosophy - correct answer ✔"love of wisdom"
1. metaphysics
2. epistemology
3. logic
4. ethics - correct answer ✔4 divisions of philosophy
metaphysics - correct answer ✔questions about reality:
- do we have free will?
- what are things, really?
- is there a God?
philosophy of language:
- what are words?
1. questions about reality
2. philosophy of language - correct answer ✔2 subdivisions of metaphysics
questions about reality (metaphysics) - correct answer ✔- do we have free
will?
,- what are things, really?
- is there a God?
philosophy of language (metaphysics) - correct answer ✔- what are words?
epistemology - correct answer ✔- what do we know?
- what should we do when we disagree?
philosophy of religion:
- can we know God?
philosophy of science:
- what makes a good scientific theory?
1. philosophy of religion
2. philosophy of science - correct answer ✔2 subdivisions of epistemology
philosophy of religion (epistemology) - correct answer ✔- can we know God?
philosophy of science (epistemology) - correct answer ✔- what makes a
good scientific theory?
logic - correct answer ✔- tools that help us to make sure our arguments are
not only persuasive, but strong
ethics - correct answer ✔- what does it mean to be a good person?
- what does it mean to treat others well?
,applied ethics:
- how should we care for the environment?
- how should we care for very sick patients?
Thales - correct answer ✔water (3 forms)
applied ethics (ethics) - correct answer ✔- how should we care for the
environment?
- how should we care for very sick patients?
what is reality and what is it made of? - correct answer ✔FQ of the
Presocratics
philosopher - correct answer ✔scientist, doctor, biologist, artist,
communicator, etc.
Anaximander - correct answer ✔Boundless (aperon); indestructible and
immortal
Boundless - correct answer ✔the force (PreSocratics)
applied ethics - correct answer ✔the subdivision of ethics
Anaximenes - correct answer ✔air (cannot touch, feel, or manipulate)
Heracleitus - correct answer ✔fire
, - logos: structure in world that allowed fire to do what it does
- everything is made of fire and logos keeps it together - flux: always changing
just like fire (river example where we never step in the same part of the river
because water flows)
- we are constantly changing (skin)
Parmenides - correct answer ✔Being
Zeno - correct answer ✔- paradox stating that motion is impossible (it's your
senses) because no one can cross an infinity of distances (infinitely divisible)
- solution by Aristotle said some idea with time - he can map time to distance
so it can therefore be quantified
Protagoras (Sophist) - correct answer ✔people are the measure of all things:
1. no absolute truth
2. no shared world
3. knowledge is perception
no absolute truth (Protagoras 1) - correct answer ✔people get to decide
what's true because there is _____ (NO ABSOLUTE MORALITY)
ex: smacking pups against trees
no shared world (Protagoras 2) - correct answer ✔you're living in your own
world
knowledge is perception (Protagoras 3) - correct answer ✔whatever you
think is true is just perceived
ex: puddle was like a lake when you were a kid
