PhD Doctor of Philosophy Epistemology and Theory of Knowledge 2

Question 1

Descartes' method of doubt in the Meditations is an example of which epistemological approach?

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Methodological skepticism

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Pragmatism

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Reliabilism

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Contextualism

Question 2

A priori knowledge is best described as knowledge that is:

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Independent of sensory experience

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Derived from empirical observation

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Based on inductive reasoning

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Culturally transmitted

Question 3

Which philosopher argued that all knowledge comes from sensory experience, coining the phrase 'tabula rasa'?

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John Locke

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Immanuel Kant

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René Descartes

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Gottfried Leibniz

Question 4

Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' in epistemology claimed that:

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Objects conform to our cognition, not the reverse

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Knowledge mirrors an independent reality

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Empiricism fully explains knowledge

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Mathematics is empirically derived

Question 5

The problem of induction, highlighted by Hume, questions the rational justification for inferring:

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General laws from particular observations

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Mathematical truths from logic

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Moral claims from facts

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God's existence from design

Question 6

Contextualism in epistemology holds that the truth conditions for knowledge attributions vary with:

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The context of the attributor

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The content of the belief

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The reliability of the process

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The coherence of the system