PHIL101 UD ROGERS TEST 3 LATEST 2025
/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS/ALREADY GRADED A+
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.
___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
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
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
/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS/ALREADY GRADED A+
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.
___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
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
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
