1. An Anthropomorphic account of reality explains things by appealing to cultural terms.
A. True
B. False
2. The philosophical tradition that Plato represents is called materialism.
A. True
B. False
3. David Hume dismisses such arguments about God's existence from causality with the claim that the material universe itself might be a necessarily existent being, which means there is no need for a "first cause."
A. True
B. False
4. Anselm's discussion of the possibility of God's existence relies on empirical evidence alone.
A. True
B. False
5. The Buddhist conception of the self is the source of the way the self is understood in Western philosophy.
A. True
B. False
6. Unlike Western religions, Buddhism emphasizes the importance of practicing meditation as an important way to foster spiritual development.
A. True
B. False
7. Imagine two twins. One gets onto a space ship and travels close to the speed of light for what the ship's clocks record as a few months. The other twin remains on earth. When the space ship returns, there will be no difference in their ages.
A. True
B. False
8. Imagine that you are standing still, while a friend of yours is on a train heading north.
You see two lighter bolts strike the ground at the same instant - one to the north and the other to the south. Einstein would say that your friend on the train experiences things differently, seeing the northern bolt strike before the southern bolt.
A. True
B. False
9. Unlike Newton, Einstein believes that space is constant and absolute and cannot "bend."
A. True
B. False
10. One of the philosophical implications of Newton's view of the universe is that human actions are totally free.
A. True
B. False
11. If we combine the two perspectives represented by Kohlberg and Gilligan, the problem of the moral justification of an action becomes more difficult and involved.
A. True
B. False
12. In Perry's final stage, "relativism," we generally believe that truth is a function of cultural norms.
A. True
B. False
13. According to Gilligan, in the view of most women, "the moral person is one who can understand and act in accordance with philosophical principles such as Kant's ‘categorical imperative'"
A. True
B. False
14. As far as the criteria for "personhood" are concerned, dolphins probably do possess "awareness" because the fact that they can be so easily trained shows that they are
aware of the external world and able to interact with it.
A. True
B. False
15. The fact that dolphins can perform leaps, dives and flips on cue from trainers: prove that dolphins are not intelligent enough to be persons, because persons would not perform such menial behaviors.
A. True
B. False
16. In terms of the criteria for personhood developed in this chapter, dolphins, on balance, did pretty well.
A. True
B. False
17. Dolphins live very solitary lives.
A. True
B. False
18. One reason for choosing dolphins for such an inquiry is that it lets us keep the concept "person" from being too heavily colored by the notion "human." This is possible because there are substantial differences between humans and dolphins.
A. True
B. False