Exam 6: The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology

The most famous monadology in the history of philosophy is that of _____.

Descartes employed skepticism as a method of achieving certainty.

Hobbes would maintain that the green we experience when seeing a green lawn is in fact in the particles making up the lawn.

Anne Conway advocated what sort of metaphysics?

Leibniz and Newton, independent of each other, developed the calculus-and at the time, there was bitter controversy over who did so first.

Which of the following claims did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence?

Representative realism holds that all of our perceptions of an external object are accurate copies of the object.

Which of the following statements would Thomas Hobbes have accepted?

Some of Descartes's followers proposed a solution to the problem of how the immaterial mind interacts with the material body, given that the body is supposed to be subject to physical laws. The solution is called _____.

According to Anne Conway, God _____.

What did George Berkeley mean about such things as tables and chairs when he denied the existence of matter?

Conway argued that, since God is an eternal creator, the universe did not have a specific moment of creation.

According to the basic and plausible assumptions followed by Leibniz, the principle of the identity of indiscernibles states that there is a sufficient reason why things are exactly as they are and are not otherwise.

According to Rene Descartes, "clarity and distinctness" was a mark of _____.

For Berkeley, no sensible object can exist unperceived.

Empiricists argue that all of our knowledge comes from sense experience.