Deck 5: Philosophy and Philosophers

Question 1

John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----

A)formalism
B)idealism
C)Experimentalism
D)naturalism

Answer 1

Experimentalism

Question 2

Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------

A)C S Peirce
B)Dewey
C)Richard Rorty
D)Anselm

Answer 2

Dewey

Question 3

Pragmatism rejects --------

A)Abstraction
B)Action
C)Facts
D)concreteness

Answer 3

Abstraction

Question 4

--------- French philosopher and the founder of positivism.

A)Dewey
B)Comte
C)Peirce
D)James

Question 5

Wittgenstein's Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.

A)Universal
B)Agnostic
C)Logical positivists
D)Idealist

Question 6

Pseudo-words or pseudo statements violating the rules of -------- positivism

A)Legel
B)Logical
C)Comte's
D)All are false

Question 7

Who said that science is not about verifying hypotheses or theories, but falsifying them?

A)Carnap
B)Sartre
C)Husserl
D)Popper

Question 8

Who was not a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle?

A)Meinong
B)Carnap
C)Wittgenstein
D)A J Ayer

Question 9

The positivists today have rejected the so-called-------- school of philosophy prefer to call themselves logical empiricists.

A)Wolffian
B)Vienna
C)Existentialists
D)Hermeneutical

Question 10

The founder of legal positivism was --------

A)Compte
B)Peirce
C)Dewey
D)Jeremy Bentham

Question 11

The philosophy of the Vienna Circle is broadly equivalent to ------

A)James
B)Dewey
C)logical positivism.
D)Carnap

Question 12

-------- divides all meaningful propositions into two categories: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions.

A)Logical positivism
B)Existentialist
C)Phenomenologist
D)Positivist

Question 13

Ernst Mach is an ------ philosopher.

A)Relative
B)Empiricist
C)Rationalist
D)Instrumentalist

Question 14

In the United States, ----- rejected the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions that was essential to early analytic philosophy.

A)Sartre
B)Russell
C)Quine
D)Carnap

Question 15

In philosophy of language, who adapted the theory of truth for formalized languages to provide a semantic theory of meaning for natural languages?

A)Russell
B)Tarski
C)Sartre
D)Carnap

Question 16

Russell's important article ----- refers to definite and indefinite descriptions.

A)On Denoting
B)Logical Atomism
C)Mathematica
D)All are false