Philosophy Exam #2 Study Guide for Section H1 (Compiled)
Group 11. Q: Who was the father of the psychoanalytic theory?
A: Sigmund Freud
2. Q: A turn towards the focus on the practical consequences of our beliefs instead of towards the abstract ideas of our beliefs is illustrated in the doctrines of what philosophical school of thought?
A: Pragmatism
3. Q: According to Freud, the third great revolution in human thought was brought about by his discovery of what?
A: The unconscious
4. Q: The study of any reality lies beyond our senses is _______________.
A: Metaphysics
5. Q: Who wrote The Origin of Species, the book that assimilated human beings into a common ancestral lineage with all other organisms on Earth?
A: Charles Darwin
Group 2
6. Q: Which philosopher addressed the question of whether or not it was best to abandon ethics in favor of faith in God?
A: James
7. Russell started what is called the ________ turn in philosophy?
A: Linguistic
8. Q: What is the linguistic turn?
A: Philosophers began to think very hard about language and its underlying logical form.
9. Q: Which philosophical belief based on the absurdity of human existence became a cult?
A: Existentialism
10. Who studied philosophy as a logical analysis of language and the utilization of precision in the use of linguistics?
A: Bertrand Russell
Group 3
11. Q: What philosopher called religion the "opium of the people?"
A: Marx
12. Q: The philosopher behind the Ubermensh is...?
A: Nietzsche
13. True or false, despite his somewhat eccentric ideas, Nietzsche had a positive outlook concerning human life?
A: True
14. Q: If a sentence is neither true by definition nor empirically verifiable (or falsifiable), then it is meaningless according _______.
A: Ayer
15. Q: What point was Camus trying to make by utilizing the myth of Sisyphus?
A: That human life is pointless and absurd.
Group 4
16. Q: Who thinks "mental states and processes have real physical effects in the physical world"?
A: Tim Crane
17. Q: David Papineau argued that _______________ ________________ is "concerned with the world of unobservables - things that we can't see or otherwise sense."
A: Scientific Realism
18. Q: _____________________ is the conclusion that we cannot know anything about the world.
A: Skepticism
19. Q: What philosopher believes that the tenses of time are a relationship between a person and an event?
A: Hugh Mellor
20. Q: When talking about skepticism, what philosopher does Barry Stroud refer to in order to get the senses out of the picture as a source of knowledge?
A: Descartes
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