Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. --------became actively interested in the reform of educational theory and practice.
a. James
b. Peirce
c. Dewey
d. Anselm
Q. Dewey's own version of pragmatism was called ----------
a. positivism
b. Relativism
c. absolutism
d. instrumentalism
Q. Dewey says that the problem must be defined before you can reach aSolution and need ------ steps for solving problems.
a. Five
b. four
c. three
d. six
Q. Dewey insists that truth is -------- of thought to existence .
a. semantic
b. coherence
c. correspondence
d. all are false
Q. --------- is a system of philosophy based on experience and empirical knowledge ofnatural phenomena. They regarded metaphysics and theology is inadequate and imperfect systems of knowledge.
a. Relativism
b. Positivism
c. Intentionality
d. Consciousness
Q. Compte reveals a law of -------- stages that govern human development and heanalyzed these stages in his major work.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. all are false
Q. According to Comte the first stage is called ----------
a. Polytheism
b. monotheism
c. teliological
d. intellectual
Q. Matter is known as our sensations of colour, figure, hardness and the like is thephilosophy of ------
a. pragmatism
b. Idealism
c. Utilitarianism
d. Existentialism
Q. ---------- is the twentieth century philosophy .
a. Idealism
b. Rationalism
c. Deontology
d. pragmatism
Q. John Dewey preferred to call his own philosophy as -----
a. formalism
b. idealism
c. Experimentalism
d. naturalism
Q. Essays in Experimental Logic is the work of ----------
a. C S Peirce
b. Dewey
c. Richard Rorty
d. Anselm
Q. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus .influenced ---------- PhilosophY.
a. Universal
b. Agnostic
c. Logical positivists
d. Idealist