Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following statements is entitled by Descartes’ cogito ergo sum?
a. Only I exist
b. Only God exists
c. I exist while I think
d. Only matter exists
Q. Descartes recognizes mind and matter as ……. substances which are created by God.
a. Absolute
b. Relative
c. Neutral
d. Real
Q. Descartes suggests mind and matter are ………..
a. Opposed on each other
b. Dependent on each other
c. Independent of each other
d. None of the above
Q. Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances
a. Dualism
b. Individualism
c. Rationalism
d. None of these
Q. To solve mind and body problem, Descartes has introduced ……….
a. Mind Body Dualism
b. Psycho-physical Interactionism
c. Occassionalism
d. Psycho-physical parallelism
Q. Which among is NOT included Descartes three kinds of ideas
a. Innate Ideas
b. Complex Ideas
c. Factitious Ideas
d. Adventitious Ideas
Q. Descartes argues against trusting the senses on the grounds that ………
a. They never directly deceive him
b. They sometimes deceive him
c. God allows sensory deception
d. Sense perception is indubitable
Q. Descartes declares that he is …………
a. A body
b. a dream
c. a thing that thinks
d. a thing that cannot exist
Q. Descartes reasons that the very fact that he is thinking shows that ……
a. He does not exist
b. He is not being deceived
c. He exists
d. He is dreaming
Q. The view that we consist of two distinct substances (body and mind) and that these two interactis known as ………
a. Functionalism
b. Identity theory
c. Substance dualism
d. Materialism
Q. Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in ……
a. Ectoplasm
b. the brain stem
c. the pineal gland
d. the nervous system
Q. Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that …..
a. They cannot be measured
b. Science can study them
c. They do not have extension
d. They have extension
Q. Which of the following do Cartesian dualists reject?
a. That minds and bodies exist
b. That mind and bodies can exist independently of each other
c. That minds exist in time
d. That mind exist in space