NDSU Intro to Philosophy Test with Correct Answers
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NDSU Intro to Philosophy Test with Correct Answers
Which of the following is a conceptual question? - Answer-What conditions must occur before someone is pronounced dead?
Suppose Tom is asked why he believes God exists. Tom says that he believes because it gives meaning and purpose to his life....
NDSU Intro to Philosophy Test with
Correct Answers
Which of the following is a conceptual question? - Answer-What conditions must occur
before someone is pronounced dead?
Suppose Tom is asked why he believes God exists. Tom says that he believes because
it gives meaning and purpose to his life. What kind of reason is Tom giving for his
belief? - Answer-Practical
One way science tries to minimize investigator bias is to _______________. - Answer-
share research with other scientists
Both Moody with near-death experiences and Stevenson with reincarnation violated
some of the ____________ of science. - Answer-procedural rules
David Hume argued that miracles are not metaphysically possible. - Answer-False
John Locke used the Prince and the Cobbler counterexample against which theory? -
Answer-Same-body theory
Among the alternatives he discusses, Rachels suggests that _____________ are the
worst source of evidence for an afterlife. - Answer-mediums and psychics
Thomas Reid's objection to the ___________ centers on the claim that the 'same
person as' relation is _____________. - Answer-memory theory/ transitive
Rachels argues that we can continue to evaluate people as good or bad and deliberate
about what the best course of action is even though we do not have free will. - Answer-
true
Research like Zimbardo's and Milgram's suggest that a person's gut feelings about what
they would or would not do in a given situation are usually correct. - Answer-False
Rachels says that through the history of psychology, as one theory after another has
competed for acceptance, none of them has had much use for ______________. -
Answer-free will
For a compatibilist uncaused means _________. For a libertarian freedom means
__________. - Answer-chaos/uncaused
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