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PHIL 101 TEST 3 UD ROGERS NEWEST
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ALL 200
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Question: Who is the father of modern philosophy?
ANSWER: Descartes
Question: What is the adjective from Descartes?
ANSWER: Cartesian
Question: For Medieval the point of doing philosophy is to...
ANSWER: ...lead the good and happy life, here and in the
hereafter
Question: Medieval Philosophy takes it as a given that...
ANSWER: ...we know some things and then asks how it is that
we are able to know them
Question: For moderns the point of doing philosophy is to...
ANSWER: ...limit our beliefs to only those that are properly
justified...not to hold any false beliefs
Question: Modern Philosophy starts with making a claim about
how we know and then asks...
ANSWER: ...What can we know
Question: Is Descartes' project skeptical or anti-skeptical?
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ANSWER: Anti-skeptical. Wants to put knowledge on a firm
foundation
Question: Descartes' project distinguishes between...
ANSWER: ...knowledge and mere belief
Question: According to Descartes' project, in order to have
knowledge we need to justify ____.
ANSWER: our beliefs
Question: Philosopher_ is a foundationalist.
ANSWER: Descartes
Question: Basics of Foundationalism
ANSWER: The thought is that there are certain basic beliefs that
are justified (one way or another), such that they do not require any FURTHER justification and all of your justified beliefs are either basic, or else they can be justified by tracing their justification back to the basic beliefs
Question: Analogy for foundationalism.
ANSWER: Think of an epistemic edifice (building) where the
upper parts are grounded upon the foundation Question: Two types of foundationalists:
ANSWER: Empiricists and rationalists
Question: Empiricism
ANSWER: All of our knowledge begins with experience
Question: Is Descartes a rationalist or empiricist?
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ANSWER: Rationalist
Question: Rationalism
ANSWER: Knowledge arises from within one's own mind, that
is, from reason
Question: Rationalism is NOT...
ANSWER: from the senses or from experience. These are
changing and different for different people Question: Knowledge characteristics:
ANSWER: Justified belief, certainty, indubitability
Question: Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes'
ANSWER: True belief you get from direct access to the thing
known ... Descartes: true belief cannot be doubted (raised bar
way higher than Augustine)
Question: Two ways to know (following the example of
mathematics)
ANSWER: Intuition, deduction
Question: Intuition
ANSWER: Just "see" intellectively that something is
indubitably the case
Question: Deduction
ANSWER: Move from indubitable premises through indubitable
principles to indubitable conclusions
Question: Descartes' view of knowledge is a ___ epistemology
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ANSWER: Foundationalist
Question: ____ supplies the foundation of basic beliefs and then
___ constructs the edifice.
ANSWER: Intuition, deduction
Question: Examples of things that can be doubted
ANSWER: History, memory, other minds, presence in room,
math, logic
Question: Descartes' goal is not to make everyone a skeptic. He
wants to ...
ANSWER: Give you justified knowledge based on a foundation
of certitude (intuition) and moving step by step through certain principles to certain conclusions (deduction)
Question: How do we get the world back? / Is there anything
you can know, from the very first, by intuition, with absolute certitude?
ANSWER: Cogito ergo sum! I think therefore I am!
Question: Solipsism
ANSWER: I'm the only thing there is? Sol ipse
Question: Solipsism?
ANSWER: No, we can get much of the rest of the world back,
but first we have to prove the existence of... GOD!
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