Exam 5: The Sources of Knowledge

____________________ developed the view that is now known as transcendental idealism.

Who claimed that the claim that the world must conform to the mind was a kind of Copernican revolution in knowledge?

Locke was an empiricist.

Carried to an extreme Berkeley's thinking can become

Who did not rely on God to save him from skepticism?

Empiricism is the view that ____________________ can be obtained only through sense experience.

____________________ is the view that only I exist and that everything else is just a creation of my subjective consciousness.

____________________ ____________________ are ideas that are present in the mind from birth.

What, according to Shankara, was real?

Shankara developed the idea of "sublation".

How might the event described in Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" be used to undermine empiricism?

According to Kant, statements that give us information about the world are

In what way does Descartes' rationalism require the existence of a benevolent God? Do you believe that Descartes has successfully established the existence of this God, or do you think that his arguments for God's existence are circular, resting as they do on his "clear and distinct" perceptions whose veridicality seems to be given by God's benevolence?

Who offered a view now termed transcendental idealism?

Knowledge that does not depend on sense experience is ____________________ ____________________ knowledge.

Berkeley was an empiricist.

Berkeley was an atheist

The critical realists rejected Locke's epistemology.

Rationalism is the view that

Who was a Romantic philosopher?