The Philosopher's Quiz

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Test your knowledge of history's greatest thinkers and ideas!

Question 1: In whose works is the "Knight of Faith" mentioned?
Kierkegaard
Heidegger
Bentham
Aristotle

Question 2: In which of The Dialogues is Socrates confronted with the decision to escape or face his death sentence?
Euthyphro
Phaedo
Crito
Apology

Question 3: Why does he choose to face his punishment in the above Dialogue?
He fears escape will not be so easy.
As a citizen, he has entered into a contract according to which he must abide by the state's laws.
Protagoras' argument is proven false.
He concurs with the court's ruling.

Question 4: What are the two concepts attacked in Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
Logical Positivism and Bivalence
Analyticity and Reductionism
A semantic foundation of language and a posteriori knowledge
Putnam's pragmatism and Van Frassen's theory of probability

Question 5: Frege's "Grundgesetze der Arithmetik" was undermined by a paradox but forth by:

Alfred North Whitehead
Bertrand Russell
Georg Cantor
Kurt Gödel

Question 6: Whose work is translated as "Being and Nothingness" in English?
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nishida Kitaro
Karl Jaspers

Question 7: What does the Euthyphro Paradox involve?
The foundations of piety.
Triangles.
Knowledge is recollection.
A caged bird.

Question 8: One formulation of Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative can be paraphrased as:
Act on maxims that can be universalized.
Follow God's commandments.
Act in such a way as to bring about the greatest happiness.
Act as though you are under a "veil of ignorance".

Question 9: Ludwig Wittgenstein made use of a fire poker during an infamous confrontation with:
Bertrand Russell
Karl Popper
Gottlob Frege
Timothy Williamson

Question 10: Who developed a successful modal logic when he was fresh out of high-school?
Alfred Tarski
WV Quine
Gavagai Humperdinck
Saul Kripke

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