Daily Quiz

March 19

1. Who invented Cartesian coordinates and invented the Cartesian method of doubt? (How many syllables in his name? What's it rhyme with?)

2. Was Descartes a skeptic?

3. What does cogito ergo sum mean?

4. What view has been mocked as "the ghost in the machine"?

5. Who said faith should be treated as a gambling proposition?

6. What 17th century Dutch philosopher defended pantheism, professed an "intellectual love of (an impersonal) God," and denied free will?

7. What English philosopher said the mind of a newborn is a blank slate?

8. Who said the key to personal identity over the course of a lifetime is overlapping memories, not total recall?

9. What 16th century French philosopher considered permanent doubt an acceptable way of life?

10. What late-20th century American philosopher pronounced the death of epistemology, extolled the pragmatism of Wiliam James and John Dewey, and considered "conversation" the essence of philosophy?