Exam 3: The Search For Knowledge

The skeptic who believed communication is impossible and who responded to opponents by simply wagging his finger was

Contrast Descartes's and Locke's accounts of how we can think about the ideas of infinity,perfection,and God.How does this issue represent the differences between rationalism and empiricism?

Descartes finally concluded that he could trust his sense experience because

Someone who claimed that we can have scientific knowledge but not religious knowledge would be called a limited skeptic.

Philosophers,following Plato,have traditionally defined knowledge as

David Hume concluded that the one thing we could not reasonably doubt was the principle of induction.

Socrates believed that all our knowledge comes from experience.

In your reading from Plato's Phaedo,Socrates argues that our souls must have existed before our birth.

When David Hume refers to "impressions," he is speaking of vague,intuitive hunches.

Set out the steps of Descartes's argument for the existence of God discussed in the text.Why does this argument not require any knowledge of the external world?

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker uses experiments with infants to support empiricism.

By denying that there is a world external to our minds,Berkeley believed he had refuted skepticism.

Aristotle argued that women were equally as capable as men of being rational.

According to Locke's analysis,a secondary quality of an apple might be

Nietzsche's "perspectivism" was his theory that

Feminism emphasizes the role of gender in shaping how we think.

George Berkeley called his position

Nietzsche compares philosophers to lawyers (advocates)because they

One of the three epistemological questions discussed in the text is

The pragmatists believed there was an enormous difference between the pattern of inquiry used in the sciences and that which is used in morality and religion.