Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Why can’t we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?
a. We can never observe a constant conjunction between events.
b. We can never observe the cause and the effect at the same time.
c. We can never observe a necessary connection between events.
d. We can never observe the atoms that make up the cause and the effect.
Q. Which among the following is NOT correct statement
a. If we believe in the causal principle, he says, it is only through habit or custom that we do so, there is no rational basis for it.
b. The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
c. Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us.
d. We have no knowledge that an external world exists, that physical substances exist, that a God exists.
Q. The expression ‘Copernican revolution in thought’ is attributed to:
a. Kant
b. Hegel
c. Berkeley
d. Spinoza
Q. Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy is …..
a. The mind must approach the objects to be known at all
b. The objects must approach the mind to be known at all
c. Mind obtained reason because of sun
d. None of the above
Q. Which one of the following concepts is associated with Immanuel Kant?
a. Occasionalism
b. tabula rasa
c. esseestpercipii
d. synthetic apriori
Q. In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of ….
a. Knowledge
b. Space and time
c. Existence of God
d. Morality
Q. According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense proceeds thence to …….. and ends in …..
a. Understanding, reason
b. Reason, Understanding
c. Noumena, phenomena
d. none of the above
Q. Kant has called his epistemological enquiry …….
a. Critical
b. Agnostic
c. Transcendental
d. Rational
Q. A proposition, in which the predicate does not belong to the subject, is known as …..
a. Synthetic
b. Analytic
c. Simple
d. Complex
Q. The critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on …. With special reference to science
a. Metaphysics
b. Epistemology
c. Axiology
d. Aesthetics
Q. According to Kant, the laws of nature
a. Do not exist
b. Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it.
c. Are intuited by the mind just like the rest of nature.
d. Are abstracted from the judgments we make about nature
Q. Metaphysics is only possible if we can gain knowledge from statement which are
a. Synthetic a posteriori
b. synthetic a priori
c. analytical a priori
d. None of the above: metaphysics is never possible
Q. How does Kant say that our mind experiences intuitions?
a. Intuitions are sudden flashes of insight about the world
b. Intuitions are formed in the mind from concepts of understanding
c. Intuitions are experienced in space and time
d. Intuitions give us the framework which lets us interpret sense data